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...their seminars on French deconstructionism, Ehrenreich went scrounging for morsels of social insight in chic restaurants, living rooms, corporate offices, Playboy magazines and even a make-believe White House Situation Room. She returns laughing -- at Ronald Reagan; at the American medical system, which would rather produce a "temple-sized ultraquark-powered graviton for the visualization of intestinal gas" than put up with sick people; and at the "unbearable being of whiteness," which led presidential candidate Richard Gephardt to tell "moving stories about his youth as a poor black boy in the South, and how he had inexplicably turned white, clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Class Act | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

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