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...marked what was for many the culmination of the violence and depravity that had plagued Manhattan’s Lower East Side for years. Today’s New York, of course, is nothing like it was 30—or even 15—years ago. For one, Rakowitz simply couldn’t afford to live in his old neighborhood in 2008. Furthermore, the old culture and climate of downtown Manhattan doesn’t exist anymore. Artist Dash Snow’s 2005 installation, “This Was Your Life,” takes the events...
Many voters were clearly casting their ballots for Ronald Reagan the man, not for the Republican Party. Said Vincent Rakowitz, 65, a retired brewery worker from San Antonio: "He really isn't like a Republican. He's more like an American, which is what we really need." The real message of Tuesday's vote-particularly from young voters who hold the key to future elections-may be that no political party can count on any group's automatic allegiance any more. A candidate with national appeal can win an election without catering to the interests...
Matriarchy, recurring through several generations of a family, is never without the suggestion that original female promiscuity has brought fatherhood into disrepute, as an agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book...
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