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Like Roxbury and Dorchester and other urban ghettoes across America, East New York sits far away from the glitter of the center of the city. The term "inner city" is ironic--ghettoes like East New York, Bedford Stuyvesant and Jamaica, Queens in Brooklyn are about as far away as one can get from the inner city without actually leaving the metropolitan area. They're isolated, lonely places whose evils and troubles are not permitted to touch the sanctity of the true "inner city...
When Nora went to Wellesley, she and her disintegrating mother exchanged bantering letters that the mother turned into a hit play, Take Her, She's Mine, holding off the dark for a while with Broadway glitter. The family's appropriation of one another's lives in print looks like exploitation; but it was more an attempt to contain one's life, as it spun out of control, by telling it as a story. When Nora took personal troubles to her, Phoebe would say, "It's all copy," a lesson repeatedly preached by Kavner to her children in This...
Rhinestone, long a synonym for the meretricious, has its reputation restored in a glamorous collection of brooches, necklaces, tiaras, shoe buckles, bracelets and earrings. Then again, even Styrofoam would glitter on such icons as Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn...
...downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will be undistinguishable from any city where the American Legion is raising hell...
...From an elegant window, official tassels glitter against a clear view of the sky;/ Clouds enter, and one could stoop them along with one's sleeves./ There is no predicting whether I'll return to this place again;/ About to leave, I brush past the rocks and waste a new verse...