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...another. This seems especially remarkable when one considers the dark, moaning city of their home?the once clanging port that made great ships and sailed them down the Belfast Lough for the world to see. It is now shut tight like a corpse's mouth, its brown terrace houses strung out like teeth full of cavities, gaps and wires...
...anything redeeming in American culture. In the concept of consensus, Trow has hit on one of the key underpinnings of the culture. But he has not hit on everything, and his presentation--in the form of a series of block notes ranging in length from epigrams to miniature essays strung together into the longer essay--suffers from being overly polemical...
...prettier, more cunning version of Kane's Susan Alexander. She has left her husband and come East to make her own way as a writer, but to the socialists and socialites of New York City, she is just Jack's dancing partner. Slack-mouthed and high-strung, isolated by her feelings of resentment and inferiority toward the Village intellectuals who fill the air with the helium of their ideas and egos, Louise becomes (as she tells Jack) "a boring, clinging, miserable little wife. Who'd ever want to come home to me?" Jack does. Rogue male...
...future seemed anything but rosy for Louis ("the Light Bulb") Eisenberg. He was 53 years old, making $225 a week replacing bulbs in a Manhattan office tower and commuting by subway from a 2½-room apartment in Brooklyn that he shared with his wife Bernice. Then Lou strung together a number-31422242529, from childhood-and gambled $1 on New York's Lotto game. Two days later Eisenberg learned he had won $5 million, reportedly the largest lottery prize in history. His first reaction: "Fifty-three years I'm eating bread, and I want to eat cake...
Some of these images are as memorable as Haigspeak. At one point Mr. Stockman mentions the greedy "hogs" who, at another point, were "strung out on a limb." The Trojan horse metaphor is itself a bit mixed...