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...turns out, the domestication of funk, which might have made Goldin quaint, works for her in a way. It reminds us of her indisputable virtue: funk, undomesticated. Whatever the pleasures of Rent, which are shrewd and abundant, it offers the Lower East Side in captivity, fetchingly confined within Broadway conventions. And those Klein ads--is that grime in the models' bangs or only hair gel caking? When Goldin descends below the taboo line, she's not just down there on a visit. She lives there, or she has. She reminds us of what the real world at night looks like...
...must say that the idea of tourists cupping their hands on my windows, to see a "Harvard Student's Room," whatever that means, was quaint for the first few days. A dorm-mate from Corning, New York, birthplace of Timothy A. Plerhoples '00 and Corning-ware, said all the tourists reminded him of home. In the unsure time of move-in day, tourists, who turned out not to be "somebody's parents," walked the halls, snapping pictures and asking questions...
...behind this town's quaint exterior is a privileged world of Bentleys and BMWs. Home prices range from $350,000 to $450,000 and most families own two to four cars, according to Petrin. Most of the residents are professionals, ranging from investment planners to electrical engineers working for New England firms like Digital Equipment Corp. and Raytheon Corp. Nearly all the residents are white...
...behind this town's quaint exterior is a privileged world of Bentleys and BMWs. Home prices range from $350,000 to $450,000 and most families own two to four cars, according to Petrin. Most of the residents are professionals, ranging from investment planners to electrical engineers working for New England firms like Digital Equipment Corp. and Raytheon Corp. Nearly all the residents are white...
Marriage," the handsome young Senator John F. Kennedy told a friend as he contemplated the not entirely palatable prospect, "means the end of a promising political career, as it has been based up to now almost completely on the old sex appeal." How quaint that fear seems now, at a time when the desire to own third-rate objects that Kennedy and his wife Jackie once merely touched can set off a frenzied auction--at a time, that is, when the hunger for all things Kennedy appears ever unsated. Whatever other image problems the assorted Kennedys have battled over...