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...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...
Arthur Avenue with its commercial energy and tightly-knit community spirit embodies the determination of South Bronx residents to revitalize their neighborhoods. The smell of fresh fish fills the street. Vegetable and fruit stands sprawl on the sidewalk. Shoppers double park their cars as they run into bazaars to buy homemade pasta, bread, or Italian pastries. This is the old New York ethnic dynamism, thought to have died in the South Bronx with Charlotte Street...
...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...
...must be instantaneous. And though they have saved several of Scott's graduates from trouble, on occasion they can be dangerous. A corporate chauffeur confronted by a man pushing a rack of clothes across a downtown street in Pittsburgh was suspicious enough to gun the car onto the sidewalk, smashing several parking meters in an escape attempt. It was not an attack. Luckily no pedestrians were injured. Though trying to drive around a roadblock is the worst thing to do - it exposes you to broadside fire - the chauffeur's startled boss gave him a $5,000 bonus...