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...Boston worsened. Two power blackouts cut off electricity for 100,000 people at the height of the storm. In some working-class neighborhoods, looting broke out. Long lines formed at the few food markets that could open, and shelves were quickly stripped bare of milk, bread, potato chips, ginger ale-almost anything edible. Not until two days after the storm, when the major highways were finally cleared, could the city be resupplied with food...
Tall drinks, potted palms, dance floors full of would-be Fred Astaires and Ginger Rogerses beginning the beguine -such were the romantic hallmarks of overseas travel in the days when people traveled over the seas in ships. By 1960, though, more people were crossing the Atlantic by air than by water, and the big luxury liners had begun a long slide into nostalgic memory; hardly any are left on the Atlantic run. Yet down in the Caribbean, the glamour of the swaying grand saloon lived on: cruise ships, populated primarily by the gray and affluent set, visited the islands...
...massive and purposeful rotundity, the benefits of collective selfcriticism. Like the bulbous backside of a Cadillac in America 20 years ago, the distended cabbage and the steatopygous turnip are images of Good Government. In this land, imagination goes about its business with methodical certainty. There are no lopeared, ginger-bearded visionaries lurching about in the paddyfields, frightening the crows. "I thought the water pipes in this painting didn't look nice bare," one artist is quoted in the catalogue about his work, The New Look of Our Piggery, "so we painted some gourd leaves to cover them. We used...
...Richard and Janet Gleave, a British couple who won the Modern competition. Her admiring chapter on the drag ballet troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, is also a witty essay on sexual stereotypes. Perhaps even more than Balanchine, she loves Fred Astaire. A passage describing his partnership with Ginger Rogers could stand as well for Croce's writing about dance: "Passion-the missing element in just about every 'sexy' duet that has been attempted since- is usually confused with emoting or going primitive. With Astaire and Rogers, it's a matter of total professional dedication...
...Hellzapoppin: Darcy informs a new housekeeper, "That is the room where our butlers commit suicide and it is always kept locked." When the hero careers through Dublin's fringes, Donleavy reveals the same skill at catching the city's sights and smells that astonished readers of The Ginger Man 20 years...