Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, New Yorkers weary of the slough of dirt, drugs and despond that is contemporary Manhattan can forgive Morris her borrowed nostalgia. Why, the garbage thrown away in Europe every week wouldn't equal the trash deposited on streets of Manhattan every day. But in those days it really was, in John Cheever's phrase, "a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light . . . and when almost everybody wore...
...thinking is really required: Destiny is far too slick and mechanical for that. True trash buffs like to watch authors sweat over simple declarative sentences. Beauman, 42, who has written a history of the Royal Shakespeare Company, published by Oxford University Press, is not a ninny. During this interminable exercise in the imbecilic, it is possible to perceive a writer who knows better, sneering at her readers and laughing all the way to the exchequer...
...very emblem of U.S. security and uprightness. His duties bespeak the nation's belief in his incorruptibility: after hours at major U.S. embassies, he and a Marine buddy go through the empty building securing classified documents that may have been left out, locking safes and disposing of the "trash," often top-secret papers, in the diplomatic "burn bag." They also check on each other. In the 38 years since the U.S. began posting Marines to guard duty, the system had seemed infallible...
What makes a medical journalist whose last book was Women and the Crisis in Sex Hormones (1977) spend six years writing a biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the definitive '60s trash trinity, Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills...
...Congress last month. That was not tough-minded either, since the $50 million to be spread around the entire country can hardly solve the problem. But the symbolism was important. In a nation that prides itself on its economic comeback from recession, the spectacle of people huddling around trash-can fires is ethically embarrassing. One makes five or ten serious moral choices (give money, pass them by, what?) on the way to work, and as many coming home, and the conscience at last is frayed. Says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, another Democratic presidential aspirant: "The conscience of the nation...