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There was something of the same slightly menacing feel in a lot of Riis' pictures too--in those gimlet-eyed men he showed lurking around the flophouses where he photographed. But Riis tried to reassure his middle-class audience that these people were "the other half," fishy characters or hapless unfortunates, but in either case nothing like themselves. Weegee knew that his tabloid readers were often not so different from the people in his pictures. And he was sufficiently unmoved by the pieties of concerned photography--let's just say that the nobility of the common...
...occur early, during the period least thoroughly covered by the four Gospels. Mailer's Jesus writes movingly of his time as an apprentice carpenter: "So my trade became my pride, and I knew respect for the tools in my box. A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine. And my knowledge of how to treat wood became another tool...
...from the Generation X-ers. According to fallen Clinton guru Dick Morris, the Baby Boomers look at the President and say, "Heck, he didn't do anything I wouldn't do, and at least he's trying to make sense out of it all." But younger voters are more gimlet-eyed and take the view that character is as character does. "They look at the character debate as a cover for party politics as usual," says Gen-X pollster Jefrey Pollock...
...work directly for foreign businesses. Others originally went abroad for such conventional purposes as study, language teaching or subsidized social work and then found that their knowledge of English and of U.S. mores was a negotiable skill in the view of local employers. And a few set out, gimlet- eyed, to seize or create business opportunities in new markets...
Amis generates a good deal of suspense over how and whether Richard is to behave honorably. But the chief appeal of The Russian Girl is its gimlet-eyed presentation of a comedy of bad manners...