Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite making it, and a keen sense of diminished status. Some of it is portrayed, in crude and exaggerated form, in the much-acclaimed movie Joe. Certainly not all workers are as bigoted as Joe Curran, though his counterpart can be found on any picket line or at the wheel of many a New York City taxi. But his pleasures are real enough?whisky, the bowling alley, a gun collection?and so are his yearnings for a taste of life on the other side of the middle-class line. The blue collar worker wants to take a vacation in some...
...hostel. Kids sitting around, rapping, with each other and the staff. Sleeping. At night, late dinners of leftovers from El Diablo. Further into the summer, breakfast too; four days of welfare food, three of macrobiotic every week. Whenever running, the Free Wheel bus from Ecology Action getting kids to free dinners at Boston churches...
...opening of the evening two men wheel in a plastic-wrapped dressmaker's model with chalk-white face, silvery breastplate and miniskirt. They twist her limbs into contortion upon contortion, her face into horrifying grimace upon grimace. Finally they are satisfied, saying, "This will sell...
...aggression because drivers "no longer meet each other on a person-to-person basis, but remain anonymous behind the mask of an apparatus called the automobile. People who would be very polite to each other meeting face to face in a doorway will turn into aggressive idiots behind the wheel." The solution: "To complement the three big Es (engineering, enforcement, education) with two big Ps-personalization and politicization...
...WHEEL OF LOVE AND OTHER STORIES by Joyce Carol Oates. 440 pages. Vanguard...