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...haired boy in a baseball cap who bore an unmistakable resemblance to Robin." One summer, Harriet sets out to "solve" his murder. She concludes--through an arbitrary and disastrous hunch--that he was hanged by his playmate Danny Ratliff, now 20, a drug dealer from a trailer-trash family. The penalty: she will kill Danny by getting a poisonous snake to bite...
...funeral, denies that any of the items was stolen and gave police a clutch of reasons for possessing them. He said some were given to him by Diana; some she asked him to get rid of but he could not bear to; some he rescued from the trash or was keeping safe because he feared Diana's family would not preserve them properly; some he felt were not appropriate for the charity shops she had designated; some he intended to return but could not "because my memories of the death of the Princess were still much too raw." For most...
WILENSKY: I don't think we should trash this quite so fast. What we are talking about is, is it unreasonable to have to pay for routine procedures, even if they're nontrivial? In all areas of our life, we have routine expenditures that we are expected to pay for. It is a very interesting idea, and people in the business community are considering...
This posturing evokes the story of a beruffled Marie Antoinette, traipsing around Versailles pretending to be a shepherdess. The difference here is that such parties dramatize only the worst of what we hear about so-called white trash. Clearly, to be poor and to live in a trailer means to be morally and intellectually vacuous, to be crude and uneducated and to have extremely poor personal hygiene. The white trash parties are not especially appalling or involved. In fact, like many social events round these parts, they’re more self-conscious and unenthused than audacious. Still, why have...
...contrast, “white trash chic” appears to be the last semi-acceptable cultural parody, and is sometimes used as a white male claim on authenticity, a way to “be down” without imitating the racist clichés used to characterize African-Americans. Eminem and Kid Rock have been swaggering up the charts for the past few years, marketing their supposedly humble origins. Their macho antics embody the almost nostalgic perception of the tough trailer trash man as misogynist; aptly, the uniform of the trend is known...