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...middle-class families risking their savings and lumpenproletarians (pimps, mutes, cripples) predominating. The dogs themselves add to the Weimar-like irrationality: a heavy favorite can, like one sure thing in a class D match of yesteryear, simply lie down on the track, look at the crowd and take a piss, while the fans that bet on him (her) scream for blood. From Class D the dogs are sent to various ethnic restaurants in the area...
...Unless we do something about these problems it's going to be the same old story next year, another piss-poor record," he added...
Although he continued writing, his later work was largely mediocre. Perhaps it was his own last years he unwittingly foresaw in 1948: "Most lives," he said, "dribble away like piss in the dust...
...Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...
...isolation of Harvard's Vietnam vets is real. Marton, who lives in a single at Currier House, admits that "because I got all the piss and vinegar out of me. I'm more sedate than most around here, and have only a narrow circle of friends." Another undergraduate, John Derho '75, also 26 and also a veteran of combat in Vietnam, moved out of Adams House last year and went incommunicadeo. "We have no way of reaching him except by mailing messages to Post Office Box 8995 in Boston," the Adams House secretary says. "I see him from time...