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This month, Ellis is joined in hot-young-writer circles by Jill Eisenstadt, Bennington class of '85 whose new novel Far Rockaway is getting the big push from publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Eisenstadt's book tells of the drinking and drowning bouts of lifeguards in "Rotaway," a seedy New York beach, and specifically of Alex, who escapes the sand and sea when she gets a scholarship from a New England college...
...other part is about the listening audience. Here Allen finds cross section enough in a single source, an extended lower-middle-class Jewish family in Rockaway, Queens. Among these dreamers by the glowing dial, the most touching and memorable is again a woman, Aunt Bea (played with becoming lack of sentiment by Dianne Wiest). Since this nameless clan lives near Allen's old neighborhood and includes a shy, slender, red-haired boy, the unwary may conclude that Allen is being autobiographical...
Earlier that evening the three black men, Michael Griffith, 23, Cedric Sandiford, 36, and Timothy Grimes, 18, along with Griffith's cousin Curtis Sylvester, 20, had left the Griffith home in Brooklyn. They later told police they had gone to Far Rockaway in Queens to pick up Griffith's paycheck from a construction site. On their way back to Brooklyn, their 1976 Buick broke down on Cross Bay Boulevard. Sylvester stayed with the car, and the other three went off to look for help. They stopped about three miles away at the pizza parlor, a ramshackle fixture in Howard Beach...
...beach look leaves some veteran wave climbers bemused. Ed Hagan, 33, of Queens, N.Y., remembers how at the age of eight he transported his % surfboard on a converted shopping cart to Rockaway Beach. "All you ever needed was a board, trunks, wax and the urge to get wet." What? No multicolored zinc oxide...
...Feynman appears to have been unusually successful in selling his son on the joys of acquiring and applying knowledge. At about age twelve, Richard was the youngest radio repairman in Far Rockaway, an oceanside community on New York's Long Island. The gifted problem solver breezed through high school math and went on to stir up M.I.T. and Princeton, where the inverse proportion between his mental capacities and his social skills soon became obvious. The book's title is taken from the dean's wife's remark after she asked the young graduate student if he wanted cream or lemon...