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...founding in 1927, the Barbizon had been one of the few places in Gomorrah-on-Hudson where a girl could take her virtue to bed and rest assured that it would still be there next morning. As the late Sylvia Plath wrote of the Barbizon in The Bell Jar-she called it the Amazon-the hotel was a place "for women only, and they were mostly girls my age with wealthy parents who wanted to be sure their daughters would be living where men couldn't get at them and deceive them...
...good humor much of the week, gave a dissertation on jelly beans, which seems likely to become as much a symbol for President Reagan as peanuts were for Jimmy Carter. Reagan observed that he "became addicted" to jelly beans when he gave up smoking decades ago. He kept a jar on the cabinet-room table in Sacramento when he was Governor, and even found them a useful tool in judging his associates. Said Reagan: "You can tell a lot about a fella's character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful." Thus...
...refused to utter a single word for six months. But in 1905 passage money came, and the Berliawsky family took ship for America. At a quarantine depot in Liverpool, Louise had the first visual experience she can still clearly remember: a sweetshop at night, with rows of glass jars glittering under the electric glare, each jar filled with a different sort of colored candy-toffees, bull's-eyes, peppermints, fruit gums. "It looked like heaven," she recalls. "It was very magical." There is an obvious and durable link between that epiphany in the candy store and the regulating image...
...dessert one night, Cynthia B. ate a candy bar, two bags of cookies, an éclair, three sandwiches, crackers and dip, a jar of peanut butter and half a jar of jelly, raisins and berries, two slices of bread with cheese and mayonnaise, large pizza and four bowls of cereal. Then she made herself throw...
...glass jar, an echo of a lost America...