Word: remo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their "kept" women. Her mother, the lovely Gertrude Russeks, was the daughter of the store's founder. Forever ill at ease with the over-indulgent life style her parents provided, the young Diane would force herself to "stand on the window ledge of her parents' apartment in the San Remo, 11 stories above Central Park West ... for as long as she could, gazing out at the trees and skyscrapers in the distance until her mother pulled her back inside." Here we get the first glimpse of a suicidal strain that would run through much of Arbus' life. Years later...
...have been unimaginably weird. True, the trappings of proletarian fiction are all roughly in place-lowlife taverns, brothels and urban rot: "The setting sun lit up the most revolting inner recesses of the sloping street." But the anti-hero who stumbles through this landscape is a perversely comic invention. Remo Erdosain collects bills for a sugar company and engages in petty embezzlement. He also writhes in noisy anguish at a world that can ignore his true genius. "Didn't they call me crazy," he asks an acquaintance, "because I said they should set up shops to dry-clean...