Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge's sidewalk chimes--silenced last spring after complaints from neighbors--may be resurrected in the next few weeks to provide Christmas cheer for residents...
...generally see the black ghetto areas like Anacostia, where trimmed lawns and trees as stately as dowagers mix strangely with dour housing projects and graffiti-ridden seesaws. Nor are there many tours that stop at the corner of 14th and Belmont, where stained couches lie cut open on the sidewalk. Washington is 70% black. Not all is poor black; the "Gold Coast'1 out along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty, a situation not improved after the riots of 1968, when...
...fact, however, the economy is nowhere nearly so healthy as such statistics suggest. Observes Irwin Kellner, chief economist for New York's Manufacturers Hanover Trust, in a grimly appropriate metaphor: "Even someone who falls off a 15-story building bounces a little bit when he hits the sidewalk...
Wolfe's eye for the ridiculous is just as sharp as ever (he hates sidewalk stereos); his flair for language just as captivating (Jimmy Carter is an "unknown down-home matronly-voiced Sunday-schoolish soft-shelled watery-eyed sponge-backed Millenial lulu"). But all the caring is gone. Wolfe doesn't let his subjects hang themselves anymore (as he did so exquisitely in "Radical Chic," his description of Leonard Bernstein's fund-raiser for the Black Panthers); he must open the trap-door himself...
...took it like the Host, some like a toffee/The two or three who wept were soon consoled."). Amis is an able versifier, but he seems dispassionately distant, the outsider looking through the window--noticing death behind the carnival mask of sex, say, then shrugging smugly and moving along the sidewalk...