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...banking bored him, and the gay Greenwich Village milieu that he slipped into was full of scruffy radicals, drug-addled theater queens and goofy twentysomethings fleeing Midwest bigotry. Milk befriended or had sex with many of them (including Craig Rodwell, who would help lead the 1969 riots outside the Stonewall bar that launched the gay movement). By the early 1970s, Milk had moved to San Francisco, enraptured by its flourishing hippie sensibilities...
...Mysteriously, friends materialize from the milieu of strangers encountered daily; the best part of the adventure is figuring out the people with whom you click best. Bumming around at 3 in the morning with a friend--who also is facing the pressure to be doing something more productive--turns out to be the best time of your life. Despite all the kvetching about the Harvard social scene, few complain of a lack of fascinating people...
Mysteriously, friends materialize from the milieu of strangers encountered daily; the best part of the adventure is figuring out the people with whom you click best. Bumming around at 3 in the morning with a friend--who also is facing the pressure to be doing something more productive--turns out to be the best time of your life. Despite all the kvetching about the Harvard social scene, few complain of a lack of fascinating people...
Kureishi's ambitions and concerns seem modest, however, when held up against those of John Taylor. Though Taylor's milieu is as precious as Kureishi's--middle- to upper-class professionals and intellectuals, this time of the Manhattan variety--Falling, about Taylor's own divorce, manages to embrace, if not resolve, some of the questions gripping many Western societies: Is staying married always good? Is divorce always bad? What's best for the children? How, in the face of personal unhappiness, does one set one's moral compass...
Only connecting and talking about experience dissolve into resorting to a pixellation of language and the mind, a crippling of human interaction worsened by the vacuum of decency in Eddie and his milieu--these perhaps can be the more trenchant and symptomatic takeaway for this stage-bound hit parade of misogynistic characters...