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 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
A CONSCIENTIOUS CALENDAR OF EVENTS OF INTEREST
were the playwrights, Mr. Marx directed
THE THEATRE
(This week, some theatres, as indicated below, SoMeTeWeloFeS (10/20/86) (Lucille Lortel, 121 Christopher
St. 924-8782. Tuesdays through Fridays, ex-
are rearrangingtheir schedules because of New sly i; 2,3 cept New Year's Day, at 8; Saturdays at 7
Year's Day. There may be further changes, so and 10; and Sundays at 7. Matinées Sundays
it would be wise to check with the newspapers 44 54{6]7)8 49 }10 at 3.)
before makingplans.) Have | Gor « Girt ror You!—A ham-fisted mu-
PLAYS AND MUSICALS sical takeoff on “Frankenstein” and other
Ancry Housewives—A boring musical about 76th St. 80-1313 Tuesdays through Satur- horror movies of the thirties andforties. For
campfollowers only. (Second Avenue Theatre,
four dissatisfied women who form a rock days at 8, and Sundays at 7:30. Matinées
group ‘The closing number is funny, but Saturdays and Sundaysat 3.) 189 Second Ave., at 12th St. 674-1460. Tues-
days through Fridays, except. New Year's
there’s a long, long wait. (Reviewed in ouris Tue Front Pace—A melodrama can be both Eve and NewYear's Day, at 8, and Satur-
sue of 9/29/86.) (Minetta Lane, 18-22 trashy and irresistible, and Ben Hecht and days and New Year's Eve at 7 and 10. Mat-
Minetta Lane, east of Sixth Ave., between W. Charles MacArthur accomplished this feat in anées Sundaysat 2 and 5.)
3rd and Bleecker Sts. 420-8000. Tuesdays their accountof life on a Chicago newspaper Tue House of Buve Leaves—A superbrevivalof
through Fridays, except New Year’s Eve and in the nineteen-twenties. The stars are John Guare’s brilliant, ferocious comedy,
Friday, Jan. 2, at 8, Saturdays and Friday, Richard Thomasand JohnLithgow, and their With Swoosie Kurtz and John Mahoney,
Jen. 2,'at 7 and 10; and Sundays at 7. Mat. raucous shoutings emerge as a very peculiar amongotherfine performers. Jerry Zaks was
inées sande at 3. Special performances love affair indeed, (12/8/86). (Vivian the acute, perceptive director. At the Tues-
NewYear's Eveat 6 and 9.)
days through Saturdays at 8, and Sundays at day evening, Jan. 6, performance, there will
Beaumont, Lincoln Center. 239-6200. Tues-
Arsenic ano Oto Lace—This revival of a 1941 be two sign-language interpreters for deaf
Broadway hit has a big cast and an excep- 7:30. Matinées Saturdays and Sundays at 2 petons (3/31/86) (Plymouth, 236 W. 45th
tionally fine set by Marjorie Bradley Kellogg. Closes Sunday, Jan. 11.) st. 239-6200. Tuesdays through Saturdaysat
The subject is murder, mingled with Victo- A Giai's Guive to CHaos—A comedy by Cynthia & Matintes Wednesdays and Saturdays at
tian good manners; the murder weapon is Heimel. (American Place, 111 W. 46th St 2
elderberry wine. (7/7/86) (46th Street 247-0393. Wednesdays through Fridaysat 8;
Theatre, 226 W. 46th St. 221-1211. Nightly Saturdays at 7 and 10; and Sundays at 7. Jackie Mason's "THe Worto Accoroinc To Me!"
—Jackie Mason is a classic standup Jewish
at 8. Matinées Wednesday and Saturday at Matinées Sundaysat 3.)
2. Closes Saturday, Jan 3) comedian, the George Washington of the
Biack Sea Fo.uies—A witty musicalsatire, con- Groucno: A Lire in Revue—A surprisinglylively
andtouchingshow about the great comedian/
Borscht Belt. His material consists almost en-
tirely of outrageous insults addressed to Jews,
ceived and directed by the audacious Stanley humorist. Frank Ferrante’s dedicated mper- Italians, Poles, Puerto Ricans, and Wasps.
Silverman, about Joseph Stalin and his great sonation becomes a true performance; Les (Only the Irish escape unscathed, and_who
victim Dmitri Shostakovich. Most of the mu- Marsden, doubling, comes close to Chico and knows why? Perhaps they are being offered
sic is by Shostakovich, with a fewentries by seems inspired as Harpo; and Faith Prince the greatest insult of all.) For over thirty
Vincent Youmans and Francis Scott Key, deftly acts the womenin their lives, among years, Mason’s audiences—that is, his vic-
amongothers. (12/29/86) (Playwrights Hori- them, of course, Margaret Dumont, Arthur tums—have found him hilarious, and the
zons, 416 W 42nd St. 279-4200. Tuesdays Marx (son of Groucho) and Robert Fisher sorry truth of the matter is that he zs hilari-
through Saturdays, except New Vear’s Eve,
at 8, and Sundays’ at 7. Matinées Saturdays
and Sundaysat 3.)
Bootes, Rest, ano Motion—A comedy by Roger
Hedden. With Andrew McCarthy and Laurie
Metealf. (Mitzi E. Newhouse, Lincoln Center TABLE OF CONTENTS
239-6200 Wednesday through Saturday at
8, and Sunday at_7:30. Matinées Saturday THE TALKSQR THETOWN 4 a sb a pene ck a nen eh eee HO
and Sundayat2. Closes Sunday, Jan. 4 )
Broaoway Bouno—Atouching and unexpectedly HER'WAYE 3 3 ass SES G4 Hehe ee a ae . Frank Gannon 24
‘serious study of a family—presumably the
Playwright’s-as it begins to fall apart in "FROM A JOURNAL OF THE YEAR OF THE OX" (POEM)... . . . Charles Wright 26
rooklyn in the nineteen-forties. Neil Simon
retains his accustomed skill at comedy but MDEDET «1. tom ae! os inh HE EN ww oe ws - Mavis Gallant 28
has wisely suppressed his weakness for sure-
fire gags. Linda Lavinis superb as the trou- A REPORTER AT LARGE (MILWAUKEE—PART I)... 2 2. 2 2 ss Jonathan Schell 35
bled mother; also in the cast are Jonathan MUSICAL EVENTS... 2... eee ee Andrew Porter 69
Silverman, Philip Sterling, John Randolph,
jason Alexander, and Phyllis Newman Gene AROUND CITY HALL. 2... 2 ee . Andy Logan 74
ks directed, (12/15/86) (Broadhurst, 235
W. 44th St. 239-6200. Nightly, except’ Sun- BOOKS) f 3G HUGle HS Hs Eh EO Se A Ge -V. S. Pritchett 83
days, at 8. Matinées Wednesdays and Satur-
days at 2.) BRIEFLY NOTED Wrremei rs EU ee cune
Tue Corores Museum—Asharp,satiric revue on
the subject of blackness and related matters, COVER: J.J. Sempé
which is almost done in by damnable soun
amplification George C. Wolfe was the clever DRAWINGS: Gahan Wilson, Edward Koren, J. B. Handelsman, James Stevenson, William
writer, and L. Kenneth Richardson the able
director. The performers, all of them splen- Steig, Robert Weber, Charles Addams, Donald Reilly, Edward Frasctno,
did, are Loretta Devine, Tommy Hollis, Reg- Bernard Schoenbaum, William Hamilton, Tom Funk, Ed Fisher, Lee Lorenz,
gie’ Montgomery, Vickilyn Reynolds, and Robert Mankoff, Charles Barsotti, Frank. Modell
Danitra Vance. (11/10/86) (Public, 425
Lafayette St. 598-7150. Nightly, except
Mondays, at 8. Matinées Saturdays and Sun-
days ai 3)
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 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
ous, for reasons that might well cause Freud
himself to break down and sob as he sought
to explain them. (Brooks Atkinson, 256 W.
47th St. 719-4099. Tuesdays through Satur-
days, except New Year's Day, at 8. Matinées
Saturdays at 2 and Sundaysat 3.)
Lavy Day at Emerson's Bar & Gait.—A play of
sorts about one of Billie Holiday’s last en-
gagements, at a night club in Philadelphia,
well sung and performed by the personable
Lonette McKee, who bearsno resemblance—
vocal, physical, or temperamental—to the
late Miss Holiday. (9/29/86) (Westside Arts,
407 W. 43rdSt. 541-8394. Tuesdays through
Fridays, except New Year's Day, at 8; Satur-
days at 7 and10; and Sundays ai 7 Matinées
Sundays at 3, special matinée New Year's
Day.)
Lames THeaTre Company—A return engagement
Of THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI, a musical adapted
from two O. Henry stories by Randy Courts
(music and lyric} and Mark St. Germain
(book and lyrics). (Little Theatre at the
Lambs, 130 W. 44th St 997-1780. Wednes-
day, Friday, and Saturday at 8. Matinées
Wednesday and Saturday at 2. Closes Satur-
day, Jan. 3.)
Licht Opera of ManHartan—Through Sunday,
Jan. 4. Victor Herbert's Bases In ToYLanD.
(Eastside, 334 E 74th St, 861-2287.
Wednesday, Dec 31, at 8:30, Thursday, Jan.
1, at 8; Friday, Jan.'2, at 2 and8; Saturday,
Jan, 3,’at 3:30'and 8, and Sunday, Jan 4, at
3:30.)
Ly Date—This play is one of Horton Foote’s
chronicles of Texas before the First World
War. Don Bloomfield is a young man who
paysa visit to his motherandsister in Hous-
ton, Molly Ringwaldis the sister, and Gre
Ziticl is their abrasive stepfather’ (12/1/86)
(Samuel Beckett, 412 W 42ndSt. 594-2826.
Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8. Matinées
Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2, and Sun-
daysat 3.)
Me ano My Giai—Robert Lindsay brings to life
a silly chestnut of a British musical, dating
back to the thirties. (8/25/86) (Marquis,
Broadway at 45th St. 947-0033. Tuesdays
through Saturdays at 8, Matinées Wednes-
days and Saturdaysat 2, and Sundaysat 3.)
Tre Merchant oF Venice—Shakespeare’s play,
with Sigourney Weaver as Portia. (CSC, 136
E. 13th St. 677-4210. Nightly, except Mon-
days, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day,
at 8. Matinées Saturdays and Sundays at 2
Closes Sunday, Jan. 11.)
Ox Cowarol—A three-person revue in homage
to Noél Coward, who saw and enjoyed this
show in its first production, fourteen years
ago The compiler of the material and the
star of the show is Roderick Cook. (12/8/86)
(elon Hayes, 240 W. 44th St. 944-0450.
Nightly, except Sundays and New Year's
Day, at'8. Matinées Wednesdays and Satur-
days at 2; special matinée New Vear's Day at
3.)
Ourweus on My Mino—A larkylittle musical
based on the Amphitryon legend Music by
GrantSturiale and words (book and lyrics) by
Barry Harman, whoalso directed (8/18/86)
(Lambs, 130 W. 44th St. 997-1780. Nightly,
except Sundays and New Year’s Day,at 8
Matinées Wednesdays, except Dec, 31, and
Saturdays at 2.)
Pantomime—Derek Walcott’s cloquent, sonic
comedy about a black waiter and a white
hotel manager onan island in the Carib-
bean. Theactors, Charles S. Dutton and Ed-
mond Genest, prove worthyof the dramatist
(12/29/86) (Hudson Guild Theatre, 441 W.
26th St. 760-9810. Thursday through Satur-
day at 8, and Sunday at 7 Matinées Satur
day and Sundayat 3. Closes Sunday, Jan. 4.)
Sex Tips For Movers Giris—A musical with a
book by Peter Ehot Weiss and score and lyr~
ics by John Sereda. (Actors Playhouse, 100
Seventh Ave. S. 691-6226. Mondays through
Wednesdays and Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 7
aud $0, sod Sindaysat 7: Matinées Sundays
at3
Swie—A musical about a teen-age beauty con-
test, based on a movie on the same topic,
which is nothing to smile about. Marvin
Hamlisch wrote the music and Howard Ash-
man wrote the book and lyrics. (12/8/86)
(Lunt-Fontanne, 205 W. 46th St. 575-9200.
You Never Can Tett—All Shaw delights, and ab-
Lone Ruxs—sic river: A musical about Huck-
SeM-TeWeTeFeS
styl 2/3
4}5};6{7})8 49 {10
‘Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8. Matinées
Wednesdays and Saturdaysat 2 )
Soctat Security—A comedy by Andrew Berg-
man, directed by Mike Nichols. (4/28/86)
(Ethel Barrymore, 243 W. 47th St. 239-
6200. Tuesdays through Saturdays, except
New Year's Day, at 8 Matinées Wednesdays
andSaturdays at 2, and Sundaysat 3,)
Staroust—A revue featuring songs by lyricist
Mitchell Parish and his manycollaborators,
including Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Elling~
ton, and Glenn Miller. Conceived and direct-
ed by Albert Harris. (Theatre Off Park, 224
Waverly Pl, at 11th St. 627-2556. Wednes-
day, Friday, and Saturday at 8, and Sunday
at 7 Matinées Saturday and Sunday at 3
Closes Sunday,Jan. 4.)
Sweet CHanmty—Arevival of a musical that has
‘cometo seem an American classic. Bob Fosse
1s the director and choreographer, Cy Cole-
man and Dorothy Fields provided’ the songs,
and the scenery 1s by Robert Randolph’
Ann Reinking stars. Hurrah for them all
(5/12/86) (Minskoff, 45th St. west of Broad-
way. 869-0550. Tuesdays through Saturdays,
except New Vear’s Day, at 8. Matinées
Wednesdays, except Dec. 31, and Saturdays
at 2, and Sundays at 3)
Sweet Sue—A comedy by A. R. Gurney, Jr,
with Mary Tyler Moore and Lynn Redgrave
John Tillinger is the director. Previews
through Wednesday, Jan. 7 Opens officially
on Thursday, Jan 8. (Music Box, 239 W.
45th St 239-6200, Tuesdays through Satur-
days, except New Year's Day, at 8; opening-
night curtain at 6:45. Matinées Wednesdays,
except Dee. 31, and Saturdays at 2, special
matinée Sunday,Jan. 4, at 5.
Tue Wioow Ctaire—Horton Foote continues to
explore the lives of the citizens of Harrison,
Texas. The principal characters here are a
racy, nervous widow and_young Horace
Robedaux (two years post-“Lily Dale’—sce
above), and they are played to perfection
by Halle Foote and Matthew Broderick
(42/29/86) (Circle in the Square Downtown,
159 Bleecker St 24-6330 Tuesdays through
Saturdays, except. New Year's Day, at 8.
Matinées Wednesdays, except Dec 31, and
Saturdays at 2, and Sundays at 3 Special
performanceSunday, Jan. 4, at 7.30.)
Wuo Honey—Ian McKellen plays a Russian
schoolmaster of irresistible sexual appeal in
this peculiar cabbage soup of a play by
Michael Frayn, said to be based on an early
comedy by Chekhov. Also in the cast are
Kathryn Walker, Kate Burton, Kim Cattrall,
Franklin Cover, and Sullivan Brown
(12/29/86) (Virginia, 245 W_ 52nd St. 977-
9370. Nightly, except Sundays and New
Year's Day, at’8. Matinées Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 2, and Sundays at 3, special
matinée Friday, Jan. 2, at 2
solute Shaw. delights absolutely. This minor
early work is full of commensurately minor
pleasures, with twoor three exceptionally at-
tractive performances In the cast are Victor
Garber, Lise Hilboldt, John Cullum, Stefan
Gierasch, Uta Hagen, and John’ David
Cullum. (10/20/86) (Circle in the Square,
50th St. west of Broadway. 239-6200 Tues
days through Saturdays at 8. Matinées
Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2, and Sun-
days at 3).
leberry Finn and Jim and their adventures on
the Mississipp: The large castis full of charm
andso is the scenery, by Heidi Landesman.
(Eugene O'Neill, 230'W. 49th St. 246-0220.
Tuesdays through’ Saturdays, except New
Year’s Day, at 8. Matinées Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 2, and Sundays at 3, special
matinée Friday’ Jan. 2,al 2)... ts Gave aux
routes: A big, handsomely designed and hand-
somely costumed musical The book, by Har-
vey Fierstein, is sentimental nonsense, but
the music, by Jerry Herman,1s pleasantly
tuneful. (Balacé, Broadway at 47th St. 757-
2626 Tuesdays through Saturdaysat 8, Mat-
inées Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2.)...
cats: A musical version of T. Eliot’s “Old
Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” Music by
Andrew Lloyd Webber, choreography byGil-
lian Lynneand direction (and some lyrics) by
‘Trevor Nunn A superbspectacle, which may
run for many more years and give cats the
Hight to vote and hold office. (Winter Garden,
Broadwayat SOth St. 239-6200. Nightly, ex~
cept Sundays, at 8 Matinées Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 2). .A CHORUS LINE: A
group of young dancers audition for a handful
of chorusjobs in a show notyet in rehearsal,
andbythe timethe evening is over we know
everything aboutall of them. (Shubert, 225
W. 44th St. 239-6200. Nightly, except Sun-
days and New Year’s Day, at’8 Matinées
Wednesdays and Saturdaysat 2; special mat-
inée Sunday, Jan. 4, at 3.)... prop: Charles
Dickens’ unfinished’ novel, “The Mystery of
Edwin Drood,”served as a basis for thisjolly,
silly musical, with charming songs by Rupert
Holmes, an excellent cast headed by George
Rose, and uninhibited direction by Wilford
Leach (Imperial, 249 W45th St. 239-6200
Nightly, except Sundays and NewYear's
Day, at’8 Matinées Wednesdays and Satur-
dayat 2, special matinge New Vear's Dayat
3.) . . THE FANTASTICKs: 11,104 performances so
jar (Sullivan Street Playhouse, 181 Sullivan
St, at Bleecker St. 674-3838 Tuesdays
through Fridays at 8, Saturdays at 7 and 10;
and Sundays at 7:30. Matinées Sundays at
3). no” street: Pleasantly old-fashioned
choreography by the late Gower Champion
anda fewclassic songs enliven an otherwise
inert pastiche of the Warner Brothers movie
that made RubyKeelera star. (Majestic, 245
W. 44th St. 239-6200 Tuesdays through Sat-
urdays at 8, Matinées Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 2).. 1'w Not Rappaport: Herb
Gardner's synthetic, though often entertain
ing, comedy about two old men who share a
bench in Central Park, starring Hal Linden
and Ossie Davis. (Booth, 222 W. 45th St
239-6200. Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8.
Matinées Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2,
and Sundays at 3.) LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS:
Based on Roger Corman’s 1960 horror quick-
ie about a man-eating plant,this exuberant,
jokey musical is wholly free of camp The
score is by Alan Menken, and Howard Ash-
man directed and wrote the book and lyrics,
Martin P. Robinson designed the menacing
plant (Orpheum, 126 Second Ave., at 8th St.
239-6200. Tuesdays through Fridays, except
New Year's Eve and NewYear’s Day, at 8,
and Saturdays at 7 and 10 Matinées Sun*
daysat 5, Special performances New Year's
Eve at 6 and 9.). . NUNseNse: A musical
comedy by Dan Goggin. (Douglas Fairbanks,
432 W. 42nd St 239-4321. Tuesdays through
Saturdays, except, New Year's Day, at 8
Matinées ‘Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2,
and Sundaysat 3.).. ob! catcurral: A collec”
tionof short sketches that purport to give us
a refreshing view of sex and do not. (Edison,
240 W.47th St. 302-2302 Mondays through
Fridays at 8; Saturdays at 7 and 9:30; and
Sundays at 7’ Matinées Wednesdays and Sat-
urdays at 2, and Sundays at 3)... PENN a
tewuer: A sublime combination of conjuring
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and comedy. PennJillette does the talking: fifteen and eleven-fifteen Tuesdays through
Telleris silent. (Westside Arts, 407 W. 43rd
St. 541-8394. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 8 and
SoMeToWeTeFeS Saturdays. Dining.
11; Thursday, Jan. 1, at 8; Friday, Jan. 2, at Avery Souire, 216 Seventh Ave., at 23rd St.
7 and 10; Saturday, Jan. 3, at 3, 7, and 10; si} 1 [273 (242-9066)—A nautically appointed bar and
and,final performance, Sunday, Jan’ 4, at 5.) restaurant. Any swaying you may notice
4) 5$6{(7 4819 f1o yourself doing is probably generated by the
MISCELLANY musicians, who perform amidships on a
Rapio Ciry Mustc Hatt—Final performancesof railed-in ‘platform. Baritone saxophonist
the annual Christmas show, with, of course, Human Figure,” and “Count Down.” RONNIE CusER and his trio provide the music on
the Rockettes. (Sixth Ave. at 50th St. 757- GSunday, Jan. 4, at 2 and 7:30. “Cantos (of Wednesday, Dec 31, and on Friday and Sat-
3100 Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 10; Thursday, Night)," "Velocities," “Persons and Struc- urday, Jan. 2-3, trumpeter Mark Morganel-
Jan. 1, Saturday, Jan. 3, Monday and Tue: tures,” excerpts from “Arporisms,”and “The li’s trio holds ‘forth. Sets begin Sundays
day, Jan. 5-6, and Thursday, Jan. 8, all at Mechanical Organ.” (Joyce Theatre, 175 through Thursdays at nine-thirty, and
2:36 and 7:30; and Friday, Jan. 2, and Sun- Eighth Ave., at 19th St! 242-0800.) Fridays and Saturdays at ten.
day, Jan. 4, at 11, 2:30, and 7:30.) Puyus LamHur Dance Company—In “Klein Battroom, 253 W. 28th St. (244-3005)—A sleek,
Bic Arete Circus—Final performances. (Dam- Kunst,” a full-length work. With the New carpeted, neat-as-a-pin music room, which is
rosch Park, Lincoln Center. Wednesday, Dec. York Paganini New Music Consort. (Dance also hushed and smokeless during stossom
31, at 2 and 9:30, and Thursday through Theatre Workshop, 219 W. 19th St 924- veante’s early-bird concerts. She sings her first
Sunday,Jan. 1-4, at 12:30 and 4. Forinfor- 0077 Thursdaythrough Saturday, Jan 1-3, note at six-thirty Wednesdays through Satur-
mation about tickets, call 391-0767.) at 8, and Sunday,Jan. 4, at 3) days, except New Year's Eve, when she
New York Gisert AND SuLLiVAN PLavers— Momix—Programs of contemporary dance starts at seven-thirty. Helen Schneider sings
Through Sunday, Jan. 4: pavienee,(Symphony (92nd Street Y, Lexington Ave. at 92ndSt.
at ten-thirty on New Vear’s Eve, and “Cats”
Space, Broadway’ at 9Sth St. Wednesday, 427-4410. Saturday, Jan. 3, and Tuesday star Laurie Beechman sings at ‘one on that
Dec. 31, at 2 and 8; Friday, Jan. 2, at 8; and Wednesday, Jan’ 6-7, at'8, and Sunday, evening andateleven on Friday and Satur-
Saturday, Jan. 3, at '3 and 8; and Sunday, Jan. 4, at 2 and’7.) day, Jan 9-10, Closed New Year's Day
Jan. 4, at 3. For information ‘abouttickets, Onao NaHARIN AND Dancers—Performing Biue Nore, 131 W. 3rdSL, nearSixth Ave. (475-
call 769-1000.) “Tabula Rasa” and “Bez and a Half.” 8592)—-On the back wall of this club, there
Beenive—A musical revue, featuring songs of (Dance Theatre Workshop, 219 W. 19th St. is a little neon version of the Manhattan
the sixties. (Topof the Gate, 160 Bleecker St. 924-0077. Wednesday through Saturday, Jan. skyline, with a crescent moon and two stars
982-9292. Tuesdays through Fridays, except 7-10, at 8, and Sunday, Jan. 11, at 3.) attendant upon it—oneof the best examples
New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and of inert-gas folk art we know of. Wednesday,
Joyce THeaTee—Openingperformances of a two- Dec. 31, at seven and one, saxophonist simwy
Friday, Jan. 2, at'8, Saturdays, New Year's week series of appearances by eight contem- HeatH's quartet, with vocalist MICHELE HEN-
Eve, and Friday, Jan, 2, at 7’and 10; and porary dance companies which will run pricks, and pianist HERBIE HANCock's quartet,
Sundays at 7:30. Matinées Sundaysat 3.) through Sunday, Jan. 18—ReMY CHARLIP with tener and soprano saxophonist sanroro
Forsipven Broaoway—A musical satire of Shu- vances: Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 7:30, and Satur- MARSALIS, bassist RON CaeTeR, and drummer AL
bert Alley denizens. The lyrics to the song day, Jan. 10, at 8... ELEO POMARE DANCE roster; Thursday through Sunday, Jan. 1-4,
parodies are by Gerard Alessandrini (Pals- company: Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 8, and Satur- the Hancock foursome; and Monday, Jan. 5,
son’s Upstairs, 158 W. 72nd St. 595-7400. day, Jan. 10,at 2...’ MARTA RENZI & THE PROJECT guitarist JOHN easite's group, featuring trum”
Tuesdays through Thursdays, except New company: Thursday, Jan. 8, at 8, and Sunday, peter Tom Marre. Music from nine. Dining.
Year's Eve and New Year's Day, at 8:30; fan 11, at 2....Ze'EVA COHEN & DANCERS:
riday, Jan. 9, and Sunday,Jan.11, at 7:30. Bottom Line, 15 W. 4th St., at Mercer St. (228-
Fridays, Saturdays, and New Year’s Eve at 6300)—Rock, jazz, folk, comedy, and com-
8.30 and 11:30; and Sundaysat 8:30.) (175 Eighth Ave., at 19th St. 242-0800.) binations thereof Wednesday, Bec. 31 (at
NIGHT LIFE nine-thirty and one-thirty), and Friday and
DANCE Saturday, Jan. 2-3, the Turtles, featuring Flo
New York Ciry Bauer—Tentative schedule— (A highlyarbitrary listing, in which bold-face & Eddie; Wednesday, Jan. 7, BUFFY SAINTE-
typeis used to pick out a few of the more nota
Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 7; Friday, Jan. 2, at marie and Tom Chapin; and Friday and Sat-
ble performers in town....4@ Musicians and
8; Saturday, Jan. 3, at 2 and 8; and Sunday, urday, Jan. 9-10, GarlandJeffreys. Shows
Jan. 4, at 1 and § “The Nutcracker.” nightclub proprietors ‘complicated lives Sundays through’ Thursdays at eight and
GTuesday, Jan. 6, at 8: “La Source,” that are subject to last-minute change,it is eleven, and Fridays and Saturdays at eight-
“Dances ai a Gathering,” and “Serenade.” therefore always advisable to call ahead.) thirty andeleven-thirty. Dining.
..@ Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 8: “Divertimento
Asitene Caré, 359 Second Ave., at 21st St. (473- Brapuer's, 70 University Pl., at 11th St. (228-
No. 15,” “Quiet City,” “Sonatine,” and 8908)—A' corner bar and’ restaurant that 6440)—A crowded, duskily lit neighborhood
“Slaughier on Tenth Avenue.” . @’Thurs- makes a polite bowin the direction of Texas bar, where first-rate pianists and bassists
day, 8, at 8. “Scotch Symphony,”“In G(its flag flies here) and presents musicthatis compete for your ear with professional con-
Major,” and “Kammermusik No 2.” . racticedjust about everywherein the Union versationalists. Truth and beauty usually
Friday, Jan. 9, at 8: “Ballo della Regina,” the blues) Veteran Chicago guitarist Husert prevail: tarry watts works, with euFus reto on
“Concerto for Two Solo Pianos,” and “I’m SUMLN performs on Wednesday, Dec. 31, and ednesday, Dec. 31, and with eooie Gomez
Old Fashioned.” @Saturday, Jan. 10, at on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 2-3, JOHNNY Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 1-3. On
2: “La Source,” “Quiet City,” “Pas' de coretano—a fiery Louisiana-born, Texas- Monday, Jan. 5, FRED MERSCH and MICHAEL
Deux,” and “Serenade.” .. Saturday, Jan. baked singer and_guitarist—gets the call. FORMANEK swing into action. Music from nine-
10, ai8: “Ballo della Regina,” “Dances at a Music from nine. Closed New Year’s Day. forty-five. Dining.
Gathering,” and “Symphony in C.” (New Ateonguin Hore, 59 W. 44th St. (840-6800)— Cantos I, 432 Sixth Ave., at 10th St, (982-
York State Theatre. 870-5570. Through Sun- In the lobby, people come andgo talking of 3260)--Everything about this club is nice:
day, Feb, 22.) the Forty-fourth Street Chowder and March- the long rows oftablescovered with pink lin-
Nikoats Dance THeatre—Final performancesof ing Club (which used to meet here) andof the en, the bijou bandstand, the view from the
the engagement—Wednesday, Dec. 31, and ‘Thanatopsis Club (which also used to meet bar of the bandstand, and the view out the
Friday, Jan. 2, at 8, and Saturday, Jan 3, at here) andof suuie witson, who is singing here, windowof Vaux & Withers’ gabled Victorian
2: “Crucible” “Tensile Involvement,” ‘ex- in the candlelit mead hall known as the Oak Courthouse. ERNESTINE ANDERSON sings with
cerpts from “Kaleidoscope,” and “Graph.” Room, through Saturday, Jan. 3. Starting Pianist NoRMAN simmons’ trio through Sunday,
‘@Saturday, Jan. 3, at '8: “Noumenon,” Tuesday, Jan.6, singer-pianist. MICHAEL FEIN Jan. 4, and on Thursday, Jan. 8, CARRIE SMITH,
“Contract,” “Video Game,” “Study of the srein's namewill be in the air. Showsat nine- who has a deep, rich, down-in-the-valley
 voice, steps forward with her backing crew. two, Sam Kinison_and suster PoINpexTER & THE
Music from nine nightly, except Mondays BANSHEES OF BLUE; Friday, Jan. 2, Lordsof the
Dining,
6 Closed Tuesday arid Wednesday, Jan New Church; Saturday, Jan. 3, JOHNNY WINTER;
and Wednesday and Thursday, Jan, 7-8, Lou
Cartyte Horet, Madison Ave. at 76th St. (744- rev. Shows Sundays through “Thursdays at
1600)—The Café Carlyle is a cozy, clegant mine, and Fridays and Saturdays at eleven
room; its key personnel (the musicians, the Danang,
headwaiter) and some of its patrons (key ‘Sounos oF Brazit, 204 Varick St., at W. Houston
personnel, no doubt, in other venues) wear St. (243-4940)——Exotic, head-swirling music
tuxedos, but you néedn’t. sosey short, who from Brazil and elsewhere in an exotic car-
sings and plays the piano withstylish aban- naval setting Wednesday, Dec. 31, pé-DE-Bor,
don, gives two more shows (at nine and one Friday, Jan. 2, MARIO RIVERA & THE SALSA
on New Year's Eve) before turning things rerucees; Saturday, Jan. 3, and Friday, Jan. 9,
over (on Friday, Jan. 2) to GEORGE SHEARING LOREMIL MACHADO & SARAVA; Tuesday, Jan. 6,
and DON THomPSon. Sets at ten and midnight Little Village, with keyboardist sos TeLson
Tuesdays through Saturdays. Closed New (who wrote the score for “The Gospel at
Year's Day. ..@Across the hall, in the Colonus”), Wednesday, Jan. 7, Redemption
Bemelmans Bar, you canlisten to pianist and Posse, a reggae outfit; and Thursday, fan, 8,
singer sanaara canmout Tuesdaysthrough Sat- percussionist ououca Fonseca & the Brazilian
urdays from mine-forty-five Closed New All-Stars. Music from nine Tuesdays through
Year's Day.
Far Tuespay's, 190 Third Ave., at 17th St. (533- Saturdays’ Dining. Closed” Sundays, Mon-
Thursdays, and from eleven on Fridays and

7902)—Through a heavy-duty steel door, days, and NewYear’s Day

down a long, narrow, fun-house passageway Sweer Basi, 88 Seventh Ave. S., at Bleecker St
(mirrors in which you can watch yourself (242-1785 )—Crowded and convivial, Drum-
multiply, corrugated-metal siding that you mer art Laxey leads his hard-boppingcadets,
can nifife), and down a flight of stairs, you'll the Jazz MEsseNceRs, through Sunday, Jan. 4)
find this’ velvet-and-mirror-walled ott. and on Tuesday, Jan. 6, thundering pianist
Phyllis Hyman sings here through Sunday, mc coy Tyner begins a two-week residence. On
Jan 4, andstarting Tuesday, Jan. 6, MAXINE Mondays, the GiL EVANS ORCHESTRA, with its
SULLIVAN sings with a quintei léd bythe big white-haired leader at the electric piano,
toned, ‘swing-eta-styled tenor saxophonist delivers shimmering sound-pictures of pieces
scort HAMILTON. On Mondays, tes paut plugs in
Shows from about ten’ Dining,
by Hancock, Mingus, Hendrix, and others.
his guitar andplays with his trio. Music from
eight every mght but NewYear's Eve, when Tramps, 125 E. 15th St. (777-5077)—A low-
it begins at nine Dining. Closed New Year's erilingtd, plainpue-unetional blues and rock
Day. outpost he decorative flourishes include
Greene Street, 101 Greene St_(925-2415)— pictures of Big Joe Turner, a Mets pennant,
Once a truck warehouse, this SoHo establish roadhouse neon, and a cat, which can some-
ment now provides space for palm trees to times be found atop the jukebox. The
mature in and for non-trucking types to eat schedule: Wednesday, Dec. 31, honking tenor
and drink andlisten to good pianists (solo or saxophonist 8iG JAY McC NEELY, Whose extrover-
with accompanists). Wednesday, Dec, 31, the sions sometimes include a tour of the space
HAL scHacrer trio; Friday and Saturday, Jan. beyond the stage, Friday and Saturday, Jan.
2-3, cHaRtes cusanks' duo; Sunday, Jan. 4, 2-3, BUSTER POINDEXTER & THE BANSHEES OF BLUE;
Michael Weiss, and Mondaythrough’ Satur” Sunday, Jan. 4, the Kane Brothers and the
day, Jan. 5-10, Mr. Schaefer. Sets begin at Backbonés, Tuesday, Jan. 6, O K. Savant and
seven’ Mondays through Thursdays, at seven- Joy Askew; Wednesday, Jan. 7, the eLuorr
thirty Fridays and Saturdays, and at six on MurpHy band; and Friday and Saturday, Jan
Sundays. Closed New Year’s Day.
ty
9-10, the uptown Horns. Music after nine-thir-
Kwickersocker Saroon, 33 University Pl, at 9th Vutace
St. (228-8490)—‘Turn-of-the-century New Gare, 160 Bleecker St. (475-5120)—In
the Terrace Bar, you can keep an eye on Vil-
York Sunday Herald posters and Hirschfeld
caricatures on the walls, and, next to the lage street life and hsten to the prano-bass
brass-railed partition between’ the bar and team of JAKI BYARD andRALPH HAMPERIAN through
Sunday, Jan 4. Pianist witton euiz's trio holds
the dining room, a modern Steinway. Junior
MANCE and marry rivera collaborate through forth on Mondays, and jazz harpist DAPHNE
HEUMaN's ‘threessme is here on’ Tuesdays.
Saturday, Jan. 3, and on Tuesday, Jan 6,
ROGER KELLAWAY, a dashing and versatile pan Music from about ten
ist, moves in with bassist sav teonmart. Esther Vittace Vancuarp, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th
Blueflies all byherself on Sundays and Mon- St. (255-4037)—This hallowed basement es-
days. Music from about nine-thirty. tablishment has been receiving jazz pilgrims
Lone Star Caré, 61 Fifth Ave., at 13th St. (242- from all over the world for more than half a
1664)—Texas-like in significant respects, century. Big-band vets puppy Tate (tenor saxo-
though not in the open-spaces-and-clear- phone) and at erey (trombone)lead a guaran-
sight-lines department, in which it 1s New leedeto-swing quintet through Sunday, Jan,
4, and on Tuesday, Jan. 6, bassist. RICHARD
Yorklike Wednesday’ and Thursday, Dec bavis descends. the stairs with his weL
fivesome.
31-Jan. 1, rosert corDon and Knisti Rose & Mondays are the property of the Lewis
the Midnight Walkers, Friday and Saturday,
Jan. 2-3, the FLesHtones; and Wednesday, Jan. orcHestRA. Music after ten.
7, and Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9-16, the West Eno, 2911 Broadway, at 113th St. (666- TAKE TWOAndthe twoto take
raviators. Music after nine. Ditang. 8750)—Those who canresist the temptations
Michaet's Pus, 211 E. SSth St. (758-2272)— of the large barroom here—pinball, the En- — wherever you go — are our
From the glassed-in streetside room you can duroRacer, a dialogue with a budding logical
nightie and robe by Travel-Lite.
see the naked saplings in the adjacentoffice positivist from Columbia U —will find
tower frontage, and in the back room, which another, smaller room, where jazz musicians
Easycare, easy-pack poly in blue
is where everybody else 1s, you can see hold sway. erta Jones sings with tenor saxo-
phonist HOUSTON peRson's band through Sun-
singers MARK MuRPHY and Jonathan Schwartz, and white swirl print. P-S-M-L.
who are paying tribute to Lorenz Hart Vocalist AL tistee moves an’ with ‘drummer
day, Jan. 4, and on Wednesday, Jan. 7,
Gown$45. Robe $60. Short gown
hrough Saturday, Jan, 3. Starting Tuesday,
Jan. 6, the New Vork Jazz Repertory En- Ronnie Cole’s trio. Mondays are comedy
$35. Short robe $50. By mail
ing
Semble, a septet headed by banjoist’ Eddy nights. Shows nightly from about nine. Din-
Davis, ‘will perform music by Spike Jones, Zinno, 126 W. 13th St. (924-5182)—Aspacious, please include correct tax. $2.50
whose’ scores and arrangements included handling outside NY area.
parts for a goat, a latrinophone, and insec- airy bar connected to a spacious, airy dining
room by a spacious, airy passageway with
ticide spray guns tuned to E-flat, Shows tables and chairs and expert musicians in it.
Tuesdays through Saturdays at nine and
gleven. Dining Closed Sundays and New Pianist kirk LIGHTSEY, guitarist ATTILA ZOLLER, and
bassist cecit we see perform through Saturday,
Year's Day.

es Alder
Mikeit's, 760 Columbus Ave., at 97th St. (864- 12lalinverni
3, and on Monday, Jan. 5, pianist Peter
8832)—A popular, north-of-chic upper West and bassist MICHAEL mMooRE take

Gene sesroweint play’ their own beautiful and

charge. On Sundays, Mr. Moore andguitarist
Side gathering place. Jazz, Latin jazz, and
rhythm and blues are what the people come swinging brand of chamberjazz Music week-
inside for. Guitarist 4iRam BuLiock fronts a nights from eight and Sundaysfrom seven
band on Friday and Saturday, Jan, 2-3, and JAZZ THE SALON
Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 8-10, pran- / FOLK / ROCK CONCERTS, PERSONAL.
ist michel camito will be on hand. Music from APPEARANCES,ETC. 691 ith ve, NY 10022/212 407-7990
about ten until two. Dining. Smokey Rosinson—With Jean Carne. (Mark
Rivz, 119 E. 11th St. (254-2800)—Rock from Helhnger Theatre, 237 W. Sist St. 757-7064. Elizabeth Arden American ExpressViseDiners Club
thefifties to the eighties in a half-century-old Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 7 and 10:30.) ‘MasterCard Please include charge number
ballroom. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at ten and Ramsey Lewis—Weill Recital Hall at Car-
 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
doneon paper with ink, gouache, and acrylic
negie Hall. 247-7800. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 8.
Turk Murphy ano Jim Cuntum—Carnegie Hall,
247-7800. Saturday,Jan. 10, at 8
ART
(Unless otherwise noted, galleries are open
‘Tuesdays through Saturdays from around 10 or
11 to between 5 and 6. Theywill all be closed
New Year's Day, and someare likely to close
early on New Year's Eve.)
GALLERIES—UPTOWN
Francisco Atvaravo-JuArez—Paintings and con-
structions. Through Jan. 25. (Museo del Bar-
nio, 1230 Fifth Ave., at 104th St. Wednesdays
through Sundays,11 to 5.)
Hanx BLausrem—Drawings and watercolors by
an artist who has been a contributor to this
magazine. Through Saturday, Jan. 3 (A. M
Adler, 21 E 67th St)
Nancy Graves / Winstow Homer (1836-1910)—
Gouaches and pastels. ‘Through Saturday,
Jan. 3. / Paintings, drawings, and prints, all
of which are in black-and-white. Through
Saturday, Jan 10. (Knoedler, 19 E. 70th St )
Brian Yostimi Isose / Marion Lerner Levine—Ab-
stractions on paper / Stll-lifes in watercolors
Through Wednesday, Jan. 7. (Perlow, 980
Madison Ave, at 76th St.)
Grour SHow—“The Layered Image,” paint-
ings, constructions, and photographs, by
Christopher Hewat, Roberto Juarez, Barbara
Kruger, Bruce Kurland, Justen Ladda, and
Suzan Pitt. Through Jan. 14 (Schlesinger-
Boisanté, 822 Madison’ Ave., at 69th St.)
GALLERIES—571H STREET AREA
JOHN ALExANver Oskar KoxoscHKa (1886-1980)
—Paintings. Watercolors and drawings in a
show that complements a retrospective at the
Guggenheim Museum Through Saturday,
Jan 3 (Marlborough, 40 W, 57th St.)
Isapet BisHop—Drawing and etchings that date
from the twenties to the forties but have not
been on exhibition before now Through Jan.
17 (Midtown, 11 E. 57th St.)
Georce Constant (1892-1978)—Watercolors of
landscapes, sull-lifes, and figures. Through
Saturday, Jan 10. (Pearl, 38 E. 57th St.)
Josep Cornett (1903-72)—Box constructions
andcollages that werein the artist's personal
collection, Through Jan 31, (Pace, 32 E.
57th St. Closed Wednesday, Dec. 31.)
Sonia Detaunay (1885-1979)—Lithographs
from thesixties and seventies. Through Jan.
23. (Zarre, 41 E. §7th St.)
Davin Hocxney—Colorprints made with a copy-
ing machine. Through Saturday, Jan. 3. (Em-
menich, 41 E.57th St.)
Loren Maosen—A sculpture installation made
up of two thousand five-inch-square copper
platesthat are suspended from the ceiling by
silk cords. Through Saturday, Jan. 10.
(McKee, 41 E 57th St.)
Louisa MartHiasporrin—Recent paintings of
still-lifes and Icelanche landscapes. Through
Wednesday, Jan 7 (Schoelkopf, 50 W. 57th
St.)
Auce Nee (1900-84)—A selection of this art-
_—_____—_— Through Saturday, Jan. 3. (Alexander, 59
TeFe S Wooster St. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday,
eeSeMe TeWe Dec. 30-31.)
31] 1 [213 Ciauvio Parmicciani—Sculptural works incor-
porating plaster casts of classical heads,
445;6{74)8 {9 {to sometimes painted, with gold-colored frames,
——— panesof glass, vases, and other brie-a-brac.
‘Through Jan.'17. (Fotah, 152 Wooster St
ist’'s landscapes and uncompromising por- Group Closed Wednesday, Dec. 31.)
traits Through Saturday, Jan. 3. (Robert SHows—AL THE DRAWING CENTER, 35 Woos-
Miller, 41 E 57th St.) ter St.. Abstractions predominate in a show
Eric Stoane (1905-85)—Oils, Through ‘Thurs- Jan 10. byof works ten artists.
(Closed Wednesday,
Through Saturday,
Dec. 31.).."
day, Jan. 8. (Hammer, 33 W 57th St. Open HorrMan, 429 West Broadway’ Drawings and
Mondays.) watercolors by nineteen artists, including
Richaro Turtur / Jerr Gomestz—Painted sculp- Carolyn Brady, Bill Richards,’ and John
tures. / New paintings. ‘Through Saturday, Okulick. Through Jan 14... steimaaum, 132
Jan. 3.SHows—Atthe
Group 41 W_St)57th St.
W.57th
(Blum Helman,DE 20Naoy, Greene St.: Paintings, drawings, sculptures,
‘Anironic tableau of a luxurious swimming and prints byartists who happen to be over
pool at Christmastime, by Adolph Rosenblatt, seventy—Herbert Ferber, Ehzabeth Layton,
is among the items in this Yuletide show. Isabel Bishop, Esteban Vicente, and others
Others include a small Picasso aquatint and ‘Through Saturday, Jan. 3.
Luz Zeiner’s sixteenth-century painting of OTHER GALLERIES
St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Through Saturday,
fan. 3. GALERIE ST. ETIENNE, 24 W. 57th Si Joe Davis—Paintings of East Villagecityscapes,
‘orks by Oskar Kokoschka and his contem- nearly all seen at sundown, with the glowing
poraries Through Jan. 31... tamacna, SO sky silhouetting the grimyrealities. Through
W_ 57th St: Paintings, sculptures, ‘and Sunday, Jan 4 (Bernarducci, 17 E. 17th St.
prints—selected for their “appeal to the psy- Opens at 1 Thursdays through Sundays )
chic seli.” say the curators—by John Buck, Kristin Jones ano Anorew Ginzet—Anengrossing
Harry X Ball, Louise Bourgeois, Charles installation involving an artificial lagoon,
Luce, Matt Mullican, Elaine Reichek, John whirling fans, a spinning ball, and other eye~
Cage, and Lesley Dill. Through Jan, 24... catching devices Through Jan 24. (Art
HOLLY solomon, 724 Fifth Ave, at 57th St. Galen. 262 Mott St., just south of Houston
Paintings, drawings, and sculptures that .
either use text as images or combine text Ken Sorer /MicHact Asrams—Abstract paint-
with images. Saul Steinberg, Laure Ander- ings / An installation incorporating relief
son, Jonathan Borofsky, Crash, and Judy sculptures Through Sunday, Jan. 4 (M-13,
Pialf are among the forty-twoartists repre- at 413 E. 9th St Opens at noon Wednesdays
sented. Through Saturday, Jan 10 (Open through Sundays )
Mondays.)
GALLERIES—SoHo
PHOTOGRAPHY
Eteanor Antix—Aninstallation evoking, in Gary the
Bronwever / Heten Levirt—Theartist alters
characters in old portraits by, for instance,
theatre-set form, a theatre, a backstage sucking on hair or adding bottlé caps as hel~
dressing room, and a train, in each of which mets. Several of the works have side panels
there’s a film showing Miss’Antin as Eleanora that provide a sort of context—words or
Antinova, former Ballets Russes principal, drawings—for the characters. / Photographs
down on her luck, Through Saturday, Jan 3
(Feldman,31 Mercer St. Opensat noon. Tues- Through Jan from
of New York
24
the past forty years
(Laurence Miller, 138
daysthrough Fridays, at 10 Saturdays. SpringSt )
Paut Georces—Recent paintings chronicling a ‘AveneEisenstaeot / Davio Seymour (Cuim)(1911-
movefrom a summer house in Long Island to 56)—Aretrospective. / Works from the thir-
one in France, and works with classical sub- tics, including prints of the Spamsh Civil
yects—Perseus vs. Medusa, for instance War. Through Jan. 11. (International Center
Through Saturday, Jan 10 (Plumb, 81 of Photography, 1130 Fifth Ave., at 94th St
GreeneSt.) Tuesdays, noon to 8, with no admission
Mark Greenwour—Family fights, sometimes chargeafter 5; Wednesdays through Fridays,
fatal, are recorded with painstaking care in hoon to 8, Saturdays and Sundays, 11 to 6)
these very small gouache pamtings. Through Nichotas Nixon / Gustave Le Gray (1820-82)—
Saturday, Jan. 3. (Kind, 136 GreeneSt.) Recent photographs of his family and of el-
Patrick IneLaNp /Geratp IMMOMEN—Engaging. derly people. Photographsof seascapes and
optical tricks played with string and back- trees. Through Jan. 17 (Pace-MacGill, 11 E.
groundpaintings, plus geometrical drawings 57th St )
in colored inks, and mirrored wall pieces. / Dous Prince ano Leonaro SussMAN—Ttalian
Architectural formspainted in distemper on landscapes; prints made from multiple nega-
aluminum panels. Through Saturday, Jan. 3. tives by the former, showing flowers and
(Cowles, 420 West Broadway ) plants Superimposed ‘on landscapes and ar-
Eowaro Koren—Monoprintsof this artist's dis chitecture; photographs of Tuscany and Um-
linctive creatures—the hairy ones Through bra by the latter, Through Saturday, Jan.
jan 30. (Solo Press, 578 Broadway. Open 10. (Witkin, 415 West Broadway. Opens at
londays.) noonon Saturdays.)
Syuvia Pumack Mancoro—Wintry landscapes Epwarp SreicHen (1879-1973)—Photographs
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from thefirst half of this century. Through
Jan. 24. (Staley-Wise, 177 Prince St. Opens
at noon.)
James Van DenZee (1886-1983)—Vintage prints
oflife in Harlem.Through Saturday, Jan. 10
(Photofind, 138 SpringSt.)
‘Group SHow—In honor of the tenth anniversary
of the Galerie Zabriskie in Paris, a selection
of vintage prints by French artists (Brassai,
Atget, Brancusi among them) who have been
exhibited in the Zabriskie galleries in both
New York and Paris. Through Jan. 17. (724
Fifth Ave., at 57th St. Open Mondays.)
MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
Merrorouitan Museum, Fifth Ave. at 82nd St.—
“Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers,” a
show of paintings and Srewingt covering. the
artist’s last fifteen months. Through March
22 ...G A large display of antiquities which
illuminateslife in the Holy Land from prehis-
toric times to the end of the Byzantine pe-
riod, in the seventh century. e best pre-
served of the DeadSea Scrolls, the Habakkuk
Commentary; a bronze of Hadrian; Tyrian
and Jewish Shekels; pottery and metal obyects
from cities of the Canaanite period; and
merous otherartifacts. Through Sunday, Jan
nu-
4 ‘G “Dance” is the theme of the Costume
Institute’s show of men’s and women’s eve-
ningdress and accessories. (Open daily except
Mondays and New Year’s Day. Hours: Tues-
days through Sundays, 9:30 to 5:15, and
Tuesday evenings until 8:45.)
Museum oF Mopean Arr, 11 W. 53rd St —A sur-
vey of the paintings Morris Louis did after
1984. Through Sunday, Jan 4. ..-@A show
of scale models, photographs, and drawings
by Swiss architect Mario Botta. Through
Feb, 10 ..@ Aninstallation by Justen Lad-
da. ‘Through Tuesday, Jan. 6....4A retro-
spective of works on paper by Jean Dubufiet.
hrough Jan. 13....@Prints by Odilon
Redon Through Feb. 3. (Open daily, except
Wesnesdays 11 to 6, and Thursday evenings
until 9,
Guocennien Museum, Fifth Ave. at 89th St—A
monumental sculpture of a ship m the form
of a Swiss Army knife, which was conceived
by Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, and
Frank 0. Gehry ‘The sculpture has moving
parts, including eight “oars.” Through Feb.
16....@A retrospective of paintings and
works on paper by Oskar Kokoschka
Through Feb. 16. (A complementary show—
ending Saturday, Jan. 3—of works on paper
is at the Marlborough Gallery, 40 W. 57th
St) (Open daily except Mondays Hours:
Tuesdays, 11 to 8, with no admussion charge
from 5 to 8; Wednesdays through Sundays,
11 to 5.)
Wuitwey Museum of AmeRtcanArr, Madison Ave
at 75th St.—A large retrospective of paint-
ings and drawings by John’ Singer Sargent
Through Sunday, Jan, 4... A retrospec-
tuve of works by JohnStorrs, early modernist
sculptor, containing, in addition to sculp-
tures, his paintings, drawings, and_ prints.
‘Through March 22..”..@ Mary Lucier’s 1983
video “Ohio at Giverny” (1814 minutes) is
showing continuously in the lobby gallery
through Jan. 18. (Open daily except’ Mondays
and New Year's Day. Hours’ Tuesdays, 1 to
8, with no admission charge after 6; Wednes-
days through Saturdays, 11 to S;’ Sundays,
noonto 6.)
Brooxtyn Museum, Eastern Parkway—‘The Ma-
chine Age in America 1918-1941,” a display
of paintings, sculptures, photographs, decora-
tive objects, and appliances that reflect the
fascmation ‘the machine held for American
artists and designers during the period of
the great industrial leaps between the World
Wars Through Feb. 16....@An exhibit
documenting the influence of Post-Impres-
sionism on American and Canadian painters
in the first two decades of the twentieth cen-
tury. Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis,
and Emily Carr are amongthe artists repre
sented. Through Jan 19... @A retrospec
tive show of works on paper by abstractionist
Cleve Gray. Through Feb. 23. (Open daily
except Tuesdays and New Year’s Day:
Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays through
Fridays,10 to $; Saturdays, 11 to 6; Sundays,
1 to6.
American Museum of Naturat History—Central
Park W. at 79th St.—A show of late-Ice Age
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art (which has beencalled “the childhood of
art butnot the art of children”), consisting of
a hundred decorated stone,ivory, and bone ob-
jects, meluding ‘the characteristic statuettes
nown. as little Venuses. Also, a reconstruc
tion of a hut made with mammoth bones.
Through Jan. 18. (Open daily. Hours: Mon-
days, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, 10
to 5:45; Wednesdays,except Dec. 31, from 10
to 9, Fridays and Saturdays, 10 to 9, with no
admission charge after 5; Wednesday, Dec.
31, from 10to 5:45 )
American Crarr Museum, 40 W. 53rd St —
Handmadefine- and applied-art objects in a
blazing showthatbefits the opening of a new
homefor this museum. Through March 22,
{Opendaily except, Mondays and New Year's
ay. Hours. Tuesdays, 10 to 8, with no ad-
mission charge after 5, Wednesdays, except
Dec. 31, through Sundays, 10 to 5; Wednes-
day, Dec. 31, from 10 to 3.)
Asia Society, 725 Park Ave., at 70th St—“Art
of Japan, ‘Selections from the Burke Collec
tion, Part IJ,” scroll paintings, folding
screens, calligraphy, and lacquerware
Through, Feb. 22, (Open daily except Mon-
days and New Year's Day. Hours ‘Tuesdays
through Saturdays, 11 to 6; Sundays, noon to
Se
Bunter Lisrary, Columbia University, Broadway
at 114th St_—A showofillustrated books by
the French novelist, poet, and critic Michel
Butor andhis collaborators, who have includ-
ed Alexander Calder, André Villers, and Vic
tor Vasarely. Through Feb. 20. (Open. Mon-
days through Fridays, except New Year's
Dayand Friday, Jan 2, from 9 to 5.)
Coorer-Hewitt Museum, Fifth Ave. at 91st
St.—The mam show, “Berlin 1900-1933
Architecture and Design,” includes mass-
produced objects (fans, kettles, porcelains),
plus drawings and some familiar chairs, by
reuer, Mies van der Rohe, Behrens, ‘and
others.’ Through Jan. 25; (Open daily except
Mondays and NewYear's Day Hours. Tues-
days, 10 to 9, with no admission chargeafter
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5; Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 to 5;
Sundays, noon to 5.)
Frick Couection, 1 E. 70th St—A display
elucidating the European tradition of mount-
ing rare Japanese and Chinese porcelains
with gold, silver, and gilt bronze. Through
March 1.’(Open’ daily except Mondays and
New Year's Day. Hours’ Tuesdays through
Saturdays, 10 to 6; Sundays, 1 to 6.)
Morcan Lisrary, 29 E. 36th St—A display of
works that have entered the collections re-
cently—drawings by Mantegna, Mondrian,
andothers, illuminated manuscripts, books!
literary and music manuscripts, and’ a copy
of the first printing of the Declaration of In-
dependence Through Jan. 18. (Open daily
except Mondays and New Year's Day. Hours.
Tuesdays through Saturdays, except Wednes-
day, Dec. 31, trom 10:30to's, Sundays, 1 to
5; Wednesday, Dec 31, from 10:30to 1!)
Tue New Museum, 583 Broadway—A show of in-
stallations that Hans Haacke has done durin;
the past fifteen years, criticizing policies 0
the Reagan Administration, corporate spon-
sorship of the arts, and the influencesof the
advertising world upon our culture. A paint-
ed portrait of Ronald Reagan, for instance,is
juxtaposed with a large photomuralof anti-
nuclear demonstrations. Through Feb. 15
(Open dailyexcept. Mondays, Tuesdays, and
New Year's Day. Hours: Wednesdays, Thurs-
days, and Sundays, noon to 6, Fridays, noon
to 10,Saturdays, noon to 8 )
New-York Historicat Sociery, 170 Central Park
W , at 77th St.—Adisplay of antique toys—
Teddy bears and dolls, including a Shirley
Temple doll; trains, includinga girl's freight-
train set; cars, including a knockout six-foot
replica of a Packard, games, including a
yacht-race game, circa 1891, called Newport
—from the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Col-
lection ‘Through March 1. (Open dailyexcept
Mondays and New Year’s Day. Hours. Tues
days through Saturdays, except Wednesday,
Dec. 31, from 10 to $; Sundays, 1 to 5!
Wednesday, Dec 31, from 10 to noon.)
New York Pustic Lisrary, Fifth Ave. at 42nd
St.—This magazine's ‘first. cover and more
than a hundred other New Yorker covers and
cartoons are on view in their original form in
the Second Floor Gallery through Jap. 31
(Open daily except Sundays and New Year’s
Day. Hours Mondays through Wednesdays,
10 to 9; Thursdays through Saturdays, 10 to
6.)...@ From the Berg Collection: an exhibit
of letters andliterary works by English and
American womenwriters from the eighteenth
century to the present. (Open daily, except
Sundays and Thursdays,10 to 6 )
MUSIC
(The box-office number for Alice Tully Hall is
362-1911; for Carnegie Hall and Weill Recital
Hall [formerly Carnegie Recital Hall] 247-
7800; and for Merkin Concert Hall, 129 W.
67th St., 362-8719. Other box-office’ numbers
are included in the listings.)
OPERA.
Metrorouiran Opera—Wednesday evening, Dec.
31: “Die Fledermaus,” with Kiri Te Kanawa,
Judith, Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos, David
endall, and Hakan Hagegard; conducted
by Jeffrey Tate. (A nonsubscription per-
formance.)...@'Thursday evening, Jan 1:
“Fidelio,” with Jeannine Altmeyer, Robert
Schunk,’ Siegmurid Nimsgern, and Matthias
Holle; ‘Richard Wortach. ..’@ Friday eve-
ning,’ Jan. 2: “Rigoletto,” “with Mariella
Devia, Isola Jones, Dano Raffanti, and Sher-
rill Milnes, ‘Thomas Fulton. . § Saturday
matinée, Jan. 3° “La Bohéme,” with Leona
Mitchell, “Barbara Daniels, Denés Gulyés,
and Brian Schexnayder; Julius Rudel.
GSaturday evening, Jan, 3° “Die Fleder-
maus," with Kay’ Griffel, Gail Dobish,
Tatiana Troyanos, Vinson Cole, and Hakan
Hagegard; Jeffrey Tate. .-@ Monday eve-
ning, Jan. 5: “Rigoletto,” with Mariella
Devia, Isola Jones, Dano Raffanti, and Sherrill
Milnes, Thomas Fulton ...@Tuesday eve-
nung, Jan. 6 “Die Fledermaus,”with Kiri Te
Kanawa, Judith Blegen, Tatiana Troyanos,
Vinson Cole, and Vernon Hartman; Jeffrey
Tate... 4 Wednesdayevening, Jan’ 7 “La
Bohéme,” with He1-Kyung Hong, Myra Mer-
nit, Peter Dvorsky, and Arthur. Thompsor
Julius Rudel... @"Thursday evening, Jan. 8:
“Madame Butterfly,” with Renata’ Scotto,
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Ariel Bybee, Vyacheslav Polosov, and Lenus
Carlson, Thonias Fulton. ...4 Friday eve-
ning, Jan 9: “Die Fledermaus,”with Kiri Te
Kanaiva, Judith Blegen, Brenda Boozer, Vin-
son Cole, and Vernon Hartman;Jeffrey Tate
. GSaturday matinée, Jan. 10: “Rigoletto,”
with Manella Devia/ “Isola Jones, Dano
Raifanti, and Sherrill Manes; Thomas Fulton.
Saturday evening, Jan. 10: “La Bo-
héme,”with Hei-Kyung Hong, Myra Merritt,
Peter Dvorsky, and Arthur Thompson;Julius
Rudel. (Metropolitan Opera House. 362-6000
Evenings at 8. Matinées at 2.)
Amato Orera Company—Presenting “Die Fleder-
maus,” in English (Amato Opera Theatre,
319 Bowery, at 2nd St. 228-8200. Wednes-
day, Dec. “31, and Saturdays, Jan. 3. and
BO] abid:50,and Sundays) Jeu" 4 end 1, 3
2:30
Mannes Camerata—Presenting two medieval
music dramas: “Herod” and “Slaughter of
the Innocents.” Staged and conducted by
Paul C. Echols. (Christ Church United Meth-
odist, Park Ave. at 60th St. Fridays through
Sundays,Jan. 2-4 and 9-11, and Wednesday,
Jan. 7, ai 8. For information about tickets,
call 595-1747 )
ORCHESTRAS AND CHORUSES
New York PxiarMonic—Erich Leinsdorf con-
ducting—Wednesday, Dec. 31, and Friday
and Saturday, Jan, 2-3, at 8: With Yefim
Broniman, piano ...@ Thursday, Jan. 8, at
8; Friday, Jan 9, at 2, Saturday, fan. 10, at
8; and Tuesday,Jan. 13, at 7:30: soloists
(AveryFisher Hall. 8742424.)
New York CHamaer SYMPHONYOF THE 92ND Srreer Y
—Wednesday, Dec. 31, at 8: Gerard Schwarz
conducting the complete Bach Brandenbur;
Concertos... @Saturday, Jan 10, at 8, an
Sunday, Jan 11, at 3: Yan Pascal Tortelier
conducting a program of French music, with
Bella Davidovich, piano, and Paul Ingraham,
horn, (Lexington Ave at 92ndSt. 427-4410.5
BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC—Lukas Foss conduct-
ing—Friday and Saturday, Jan 2-3, at 8,
and Sunday, Jan. 4, at’ 2: With’ Bella
Davidovich, piano, and the Grace Choral
Society of Brooklyn. ...@ Friday and Satur-
day, fan. 9-10, at 8, and Sunday, Jan. 11, at
2, (postponed "from November). The New
York premiére of William Bolcom’s “Songsof
Innocence and of Experience. A Musical
Illumination of the Poems of WilliamBlake,”
with eight soloists; three choruses; jazz, rock,
andfolk ensembles; and a narrator. (Brooklyn
‘Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave 1-718
636-4120.)
‘Awerican SympHony OrcHestea—John Maucer1
conducting, with Susan Dunn,Soprano. (Car-
negie Hall. ‘Sunday,Jan. 4, at’3.)
Orctestes oF Sr. Luxe's—Julius Rudel conduct-
ing, with Jorge Bolet, piano. (Carnegie Hall
Thursday; Jan. 8, at 8
Grece Smith Sincers—Mr Smith directing. (St
Peter’s Church, Lexington Ave at $4th St.
Saturday, Jan "10, at 8:30. For information
about tickets, call 874-2990.)
RECITALS.
For tHe Love of Music—With Ida Kavafian,
violin and viola; Warren Lash, cello; and
Jeftrey Swan, piano, (Merkin Concert Hall Piano,violin, and cello, in an _all-Beethoven
sunday, Jan 4, at 3.) program. (Alice Tully Hall. Saturday, Jan
Payutis Aureet Lewrer—Piano. (Merkin Concert 10, at 3
Hall. Sunday, Jan. 4, at 7.) Mary ANN Hart-—Mezzo-soprano, with Dennis
Helmrich, piano, in a one-hour recital of
Juntiaro String Quarter—Chamber music.
(Weill Recital Hall. Monday, Jan. 5, at 8 ) American’ songs.’ (St. Peter's Church, Lex-
ington Ave. at 54th St. Saturday, Jan. 10,
New York PHILHARWoNIc EnsewaLes—Thefirst in at 5. For information abouttickets, call 874
a series of six concerts. (Merkin Concert Hall 2990
Monday, Jan. 5, at 8.) )
Bach Cuameer So.oists—Works b; Bach, Tele- piano, Jonnson—Violin,
Turuston
and Whitney
with David Garvey,
Tustin, oboe. (Weill
mann, and others. (Merkin ‘oncert’ Hall. Recital Hall. Saturday, Jan. 10,at 8:30.)
Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 2.)
New York Consort of Viors—With countertenor MISCELLANY
Steven Rickards. (St. Stephen’s Church, 122 New Year's Eve Carnecie Hatt Benerit Concert—
W69th St. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 8 Tickets at Anevening of Victorian song and instrumen-
the door on the night’ of the concert.) tal music, beginning at 8, will be presented
Aetnur Greene—Piano (Carnegie Hall Wednes- by Benjamin Luxon, baritone; Robert Tear,
day, Jan. 7, at 8.) tenor, and Marvin Hamlisch, piano, with
Dennis Koster—Classical and flamenco guitar- assistance from Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma,
ist, (Merkin Concert Hall. Wednesday, Jan Richard Stoltzman, and Nancy Allen.
7, at 8. "Tue Art oF tHe Spirituat"—With Mattiwilda
Guarneri Quarrer—With George Shirley, tenor, Dobbs, soprano, Lorice Stevens, mezzo-so-
and Claude Frank, piano. (Alice Tully Hall prano, Kenn Hicks, tenor, William Warfield,
Wednesday,Jan. 7, at 8)... @ With Samuel bass-baritone, and’ William Duncan. Allen
Rhodes, viola, and Joel Krosnick, cello and Eugene Gash, piano. (Carnegie Hall. Sat-
(Grace ‘Rainey Rogers Auditorium, ’Metro- urday. Jan 3, at 8.
politan Museum, Fifth Ave at 83rd’St. 570- 1 Grutart ot Piazza—Presenting “La Cantata
3949. Saturday, Jan 10, at 8) dei Pastori,” an adaptation of a seventeenth-
Eweine Brass—Works by Scarlatti, Bach, Ravel, century Neapolitan Christmas play. (St.
Bernstein, and others. (Weill Recital Hall Mark’s In-the-Bouwerie, Second Ave at 10th
Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 8.) St, Saturday, Jan. 3, af 8, and Sunday, Jan.
Tue Art oF tHe Earty Kevsoaro—Thesecond in a 4, at 5. Tickets at the door on the days of the
series of four concerts featuring Gwendo- performances.)
lyn Toth (harpsichord and fortepiano) and
guest artists, this one with Frederick Urrey, SPORTS
tenor; Daniel Phillips, violin; Lisa Terry, (The box-office number for Madison Square
viola'da_gamba, and 'Dongsok Shin, forte- Garden is 564-4400, for the Meadowlands
piano. (St Michael's Church, Amsterdam 1-201 935-3900, and for Nassau Coliseum
Ave. at 99th St. Wednesday, Jan. 7, at 8.
Tickets at the door on the night of the con- 1-516 587-9222 )
cert.) BaSkeTBALL—At BYRNE MEADOWLANDSARENA: Nets
BenJamin Luxon ano Bit. Crorut—Baritone and vs_Los Angeles Clippers, Saturday, Jan 3, at
banjoist, m a program of American and Brit- at 7:30, Washington Bullets, Wednesday,Jan’ 7,
ish Songs, with assisting artists, (Weill Recit- 7/30, and Portland Trail Blazers, Friday,
al Hall: Thursday, Jan. 8, at 8.) jan. 9, at 7:30... MADISON SQUARE GARDEN:
Waverty Consorr—Music of medieval Iberia, nicks’ vs. Atlanta Hawks, Tuesday, Jan 6,
with George Mgrdichian, oud. (Alice Tully Jan. 10,atand.
at 7:30, Sacramento’ Kings, Saturday,
7:30.
Hall. Thursday, Jan. 8, and Saturday, Jan Hocxey—At mAvISON squARE GARDEN: Rangers vs
10, ar 8) Islanders, Wednesday, Dec 31; Minnesota
Earty Music ar THe Vinevaro THeatee—Two en- North Stars, Monday, Jan. 5; Philadelphia
sembles performing on period instruments. Flyers, Wednesday, Jan 7; and Islanders,
Thursday,Jan. 8, at 8° Vineyardmusik,pr Friday, Jan. 9. (Games begin at 7°35 )
senting eighteenth-century French musi BYRNE MEADOWLANDS ARENA: Devils vs Boston
Friday, Jan. 9, at 8 Music for a While, Bruins, Friday, Jan. 2, at 7:35; Quebec Nor-
performing medieval music (309 E 26th St diques, Thursday, Jan. 8, at 7°35, and Van-
83-0696 ) couver Canucks,” Saturday, Jan. 10, at
Cramaer Players oF THE Leacue-ISCM—With 1.35... Nassau couiseum:Islanders vs. Boston
uest_soloists. (Merkin Concert Hall. Thurs- Bruins, Saturday, Jan. 3, at 7:05; Minnesota
lay, Jan. 8, at 8.) North Stars, Tuesday, Jan 6, at 8:05, and
Isaac SteRn ANo Frtenos—The violinist and assist Toronto Maple Leafs,’ Saturday, Jan. 10, at
ing artists. (Weill Recital Hall Friday, Jan. 7-05
9, at 8.) Racine—At Aqueduct Daily, except Tuesdays,
Cramser Music SocietyoF Lincoun Center— With at 12:30
Kyung-Wha Chung, violin. (Alice Tully Hall Trorminc—At Yonkers Raceway: Weeknights at
Eiiday, Jan. 9, at 8, and Sunday,Jan. 11, at 8, through Wednesday,Jan. 7.
Samuet Ramey—Bass, with Warren Jones, piano ET ALIA
(Carnegie Hall. Friday, Jan. 9, ai 8 )
Litian Kaur, Peter QUNDJIAN, AND LestiPARNAs— Poetry ano Prose Reaoines—A non-stop reading
of Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” by a hundred
or ‘so indefatigable readers. (Paula Cooper
Gallery, 155 Wooster St. Starting at noon on
Wednesday, Dec. 31, and going through New
Year's Day, to about 8 p.m. Notickets neces-
sary). ,@A marathon of another sort—
poetry, dance, and varied entertamment—
will be carried out by Allen Ginsberg, the
WowCafé, John Giorno, David Cale, Anne
Waldman,’ Jessica Hagedorn, and ‘many
others (St. Mark's In-the-Bouwerie, Second
‘Ave. at 10th St. New Year's Daystarting at
7. A benefit, tickets at the door on the eve-
ningof the festivities.).. @Ian Frazier and
Veronica Geng reading from their own prose.
(92nd Street Y, Lexington Ave at 92nd St
427-4410. Monday, Jan. 5, at 8) @ Ann
Lauterbach and David Lehmanreading from
their own poetry, (National Arts Club, 15
Gramercy Park. 254-9628, Wednesday, Jan
7, at8
Nationat Boat SHow—More than six hundred
sail and power boats, plus engines and boat
accessories. (Jacob. K. Javits Convention
Center, 11th “Ave. between 34th and 39th
Sts. Saturdays, Jan. 3 and 10, from 10 to 10;
Sundays, Jan ‘4 and 11, from 11 to 7; and
Monday’ through Friday, Jan. 5-9, from'noon
to 10.)

GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
EAST SIDE
Pusuic THeatre, 425 Lafayette St. (598-7171;
theatre opens in the late afternoon and is
closed Mondays )
Through Jan. 1. “Typhoon Club” (1985;
directed by Shinji Somar; in Japanese),
From Jan. 2: (Separate admissions) “Once
Upon a Time in the West” (1969; Sergio
Leone), with Henry Fonda, Claudia Car-
dinale, and Jason Robards; and “The
Leopard” (+).
Movietano 8TH Street Triptex, 36 E. 8th. (477-
6600)
Theatre 1: “The Mission” (Roland Joffé),
with Robert De Niro and JeremyIrons.
Theatre 2: “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (Gene
Saks), with Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy,
Judith Ivey, and JonathanSilverman.
Theatre 3: “No Mercy” (Richard Pearce),
with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger.
New Gramercy, Lexington at 23rd. (475-1660)
“Little Shop of Horrors” (Frank Oz), with
Rick Moramss, Ellen Greene, and Vincent
Gardenia.
Bay Cinema, 2nd Ave at 32nd. (679-0160)
“The Morning After” (#)
Loews 34TH Street SHowrtace, 238 E. 34th (532-
5544)
Theatre 1, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage
Home” (Leonard Nimoy), with William
Shatner and Nimoy.
‘Theatre 2: “Three Amigos” (John Landis),
with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Mar-
tin Short
Theatre 3. “The Golden Child” (Michael
Ritchie), with Eddie Murphy
34mH Sr. East, 241 E. 34th. (683-0255)
“Crimes of the Heart” (f)
Eastsive Cinema, 3rd Ave. at 5th (755-3020)
“The Color of Money” (+)
Surton, 3rd Ave. at 57th. (759-1411)
“The Mosquito Coast” (Peter Weir), with
Harrison Ford.
Gora Cinewa, 3rd Ave at S8th. (759-2262)
“The Morning After” (¥)
Puaza, 42 E. S8th (355-3320)
“The Mission” (Roland Jofié), with Robert
‘De Niro and Jeremy Trans.
Mannattan | ano 2, 3rd Ave. at 59th (935-
6420)
‘Theatre 1: “Crimesof the Heart”(+).
Theatre 2: “Heartbreak Ridge”(f).
Baroner ano Coroner, 3rd Ave. at 59th. (355-
1663)
‘Theatre 1: “Wisdom” (Emilio Estevez), with
Estevez and Demi Moore.
‘Theatre 2 “Native Son”(Jerrold Freedman),
with Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth McGovern,
and Vietor Love.
D.W. GrirritH, 235 E. 59th. (759-4630)
“Round Midnight” (f),
Cinema I ano Il, 3rd Ave. at 60th. (753-
6022/0774)
Theatre 1: “Miss Mary” (Maria Luisa Bem-
berg), with Julie Christie.
Theatre 2: “BettyBlue” (Jean-Jacques Bein-
eix, in French), with Jean-Hugues Anglade
and Béatrice Dalle.
Gemini | ano 2, 2nd Ave. at 64th. (832-1670)
‘Theatre 1:'“No Mercy” (Richard Pearce),
with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger
Theatre 2: “Three Amigos” (john Landis),
with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Mar-
tin Short.
Beekman, 2nd Ave. at 66th. (737-2622)
“Little Shop of Horrors” (Frank Oz), with
Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and Vincent
Gardenia
Loews New York Twin, 2nd Ave. at 67th. (744-
7339)
Theatre 1: “The Golden Child” (Michael
Ritchie), with Eddie Murphy.
Theatre 2: “Platoon” (Oliver Stone), with
‘Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoc, and Charlie
Sheen.
68th St. PLavHouse, 3rd Ave. at 68th (734-0302)
Through Jan 8: “Rouge Baiser” (Vera Be
mont; 1m French), with Charlotte Valandre
FromJan. 9: “My SweetLittle Village” (Jifi
Merizel; a Czech film)
Loews Tower East, 3rd Ave. at71st. (879-1313)
“Brighton Beach Memoirs” (Gene Saks), with
Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith ‘Ivey,
and Jonathan Silverman.
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DESCRIBED IN THE "IN BRIEF" SECTION,
STARTING ON PAGE 15.
UA.East, Ist Ave. at 85th. (249-5100)
“Three Amigos” (John Landis), with Steve
Martin, Chevy Chase, and Martin Short
R.K.O. 86rH St. Twin, Lexington at 86th. (289-
8900)
Theatre 1: “Heartbreak Ridge” (+).
Theatre 2. “No Mercy” (Richard Pearce),
with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger.
Loews OrpHeum | ano 2, 3rd Ave at 86th. (289-
4607)
Theatre 1 “Star Trek IV The Voyage
Home” (Leonard Nimoy), with Wilham
Shatner and Nimo;
Theatre 2: “The Golden Child” (Michael
Ritchie), with Eddie Murphy.
86H Sr. East, 3rd Ave. at 86th. (249-1144)
“The Morning After” (#).
WEST SIDE
Fim Forum | ano 2, 57 Watts St. (431-1590;
Mondays through’ Fridays, theatre opens in
the late afternoon.)
Theatre 1 Through Jan. 6° A program of
adult animatedfilms by Robert Breer, Jane
‘Aaron, and Maureen Selwood. From Jan 7
“The City and the Dogs” (1985, directed
by Francisco J. Lombardi; in 'Spanish),
with Pablo Serra.
Theatre 2 “Mona Lisa”(f).
Bueecker Sr. Cinema I AND 2, 144 Bleecker St.
(674-2560)
Theatre 1: “Children of a Lesser God” (Ran-
da Haines), with William Hurtand Marlee
Matlin
Theatre 2. (Separate admissions) “My Beau-
tiful Laundrette” (+); and “Mother Tere-
sa”(Annand Jeanette Petrie), a documen-
tary.
Waverty | ano 2, 6th Ave. at 3rd. (929-8037)
‘Theatre 1: “Blue Velvet”(¥).
‘Theatre 2: “The Morning After” (t).
81H St. PLavHouse, 52 W. 8th. (674-6515; Mon- Theatre
days through Fridays, theatre opens in the
late afternoon )
“True Stories” (f)
RKO. Art Greenwich Twix, Greenwich Ave. at
12th, (929-3350)
Theatre 1: “Crimesof the Heart”(t)
13
Theatre 2: “The Mosquito Coast” (Peter
Weir), with Harnson Ford,
QuanCinema, 34 W. 13th (255-8800)
Theatre 1:"“Down by Law” (+)
Theatre 2: “She's Gotta Have It” (}).
Theatre 3. “A Room with a View”(f)
Theatre 4; “Peggy Sue Got Married” (+).
23n0 St. West Triptex, 333 W. 23rd. (989-0060)
‘Theatre 1: “Heartbreak Ridge” (f)
Theatre 2: “Lady and the Tramp*(1955), a
Walt Disney full-length cartoon.
Theatre 3: “King Kong Lives” (John Guiller-
min), with Brian Kerwin and Linda Hamil-
ton
Gum, 33 W. SOth, (757-2406)
“Lady and the Tramp” (1955), a Walt Dis-
neyfull-length cartoon
Ziecre.o, 141 W. 54th. (765-7600)
“Wisdom” (Emilio Estevez), with Estevez
and Demi Moore.
571m Sr. PLavHouse, 110 W. 57th. ($81-7360)
“Sid and Nancy” (Alex Cox), with Gary Old-
man and Chloe Webb.
New Caanecie, 225 W. S7th (582-4582)
“Children of a Lesser God” (Randa Haines),
with Willam Hurt and Marlee Matlin
Panis, 4 W. S8th (688-2013)
“The Decline of the American Empire” (4).
Cinema 3,2 W 59th. (752-5959)
“Marlene” (Maximilian Schell), a documen-
tary.
Loews Paramount, B'way at 61st. (247-5070)
“Brighton Beach Memonrs” (Gene Saks), with
Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Judith Ivey,
and JonathanSilverman.
Lincoun Puaza I, 2, aNo 3, Blwayat 63rd. (757-
2280)
Theatre 1: “The Mosquito Coast” (Peter
Weir), with Harrison Ford
‘Theatre 2. “Thérése” (Alain Cavalier; in
French), with Catherine Mouchet.
Theatre 3: “Men...” (¥).
Cinema Stupio | AND 2, B'way at 66th. (877-
4040)
‘Theatre 1: “El Amor Brujo” (Carlos Saura; in
Spanish)
Theatre 2. “Ménage”()
Ewsassy 72no St. | ano 2, Bway at 72nd, (724-
6745)
Theatre 1. “The Morning After”(#),
Theatre 2: “A Room with a View” (f)
Loews 84TH Street Sixetex, B'wayat 84th (877-
3600)
Theatre 1° “Little Shop of Horrors” (Frank
Oz), with Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and
Vincent Gardenia.
Theatre 2: “Star Trek IV: The Voyage
Home” (Leonard Nimoy), with Wilham
Shatner and Nimoy
Theatre 3. “The Golden Child” (Michael
Ritchie), with Eddie Murphy
‘Theatre 4 “Crimes of the Heart” (+),
Theatre 5: “Three Amigos” (John Landis),
with Steve Martin, Chevy Clase, and Mar”
tin Short.
‘Theatre 6. “No Mercy” (Richard Pearce),
with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger
Metro Cinema | an2, Blway at 99th, (222-
1200)
Theatre 1: “Round Midnight” (+)
Theatre 2: “The Mission” (Roland Joffé),
with Robert De Niro andJeremyIrons
Otymera Quad, B'way at 107th. (865-8128)
Theatre 1:\(Matinées only) “An American
Tail” (Don Bluth), an animated film, and
(evenings only) “Down by Law” (+).
Theatre2: “King Kong Lives”(John Guiller-
min), with Brian Kerwin and Linda Hamil-
ton.
‘Theatre 3: “Ladyand the Tramp” (1955), a
Walt Disneyfull-length cartoon
Theatre 4: “Crocodile Dundee” (Peter Fai-
man), with Paul Hogan.
TIMES SQUARE AREA
Criterion Center, B'wayat 44th. (354-0900)
Theatre
1: “Peggy Sue Got Married” (f),
2: “King Kong Lives” (directed by
john Guillermin), with Brian Kerwin and
inda Hamulton
‘Theatre 3: “An American Tail” (DonBluth),
an animated film.
Theatre 4° “She's Gotta Have It” ()
Theatre 5 “Little Shop of Horrors” (Frank
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
Oz), with Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and
Vincent Gardenia
Theatre 6: “Crimesof the Heart”(4).
Ewsassy |, Bway at 46th Ao2308)
“The Color of Money”(+).
Empassy 2, 3, ano 4, Seventh Ave. at 47th. (730-
7262)
Theatre 2. “Crocodile Dundee” (Peter Fai-
man), with Paul Hogan.
‘Theatre 3: “Native Son”(Jerrold Freedman),
with Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth McGovern,
andVictor Love
Theatre 4: “Native Son.”
Loews Astor Piaza, 44th St. at B’way (869-
8340)
“Platoon” (Olver Stone), with Tom Ber-
enger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen.
LoewsState | ano 2, B’way at 45th, (575-5060)
‘Theatre 1: “Star Trek IV: The Voyage
Home” (Leonard Nimoy), with William
Shatner and Nimoy.
Theatre 2: “The Golden Child” (Michael
Ritchie), with Eddie Murphy
New Emsassy 49TH Street, 49th St. near Seventh
‘Ave. (757-7003)
“Lady and the Tramp” (1955), a Walt Dis-
ney full-length cartoon
R.K.O.Nationat Twin, B'wayat 44th. (869-0950)
Theatre 1. “The Mosquito Coast” (Peter
Weir), with Harrison Ford.
‘Theatre2: “The Morning After” (+)
R.K.O. Warner Twin, B’way at 47th, (315-8425)
Theatre 1: “Heartbreak Ridge” (t).
Theatre 2: “No Mercy” (Richard Pearce),
with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger
UA. Twin I ano 2, B’wayat 49th. (247-1635)
‘Theatre 1° “The Boy Who Could Fly” (Nick
Castle)
‘Theatre 2: “Three Amigos” (John Landis),
with Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, and Mar-
tin Short.
REVIVAL HOUSES
Cinema Viutace, 22 E, 12th. (924-3363)
‘Through Jan 1: “The Ruling Class (1972;
directed by Peter Medak), with Peter
O'Toole and Arthur Lowe; and “Bedazzled”
(1967; Stanley Donen), with Peter Cook,
Dudley Mooré, and Eleanor Bron.
Jap. 23: “Desperately Seeking Susan’ (1985;
Susan Seidelman), with Rosanna Arquette
and Madonna; and “Smithereens” (1982,
Susan Seidelman), with Susan Berman.
Jan. 4-6: “Autumn Sonata” (1978, Ingmar
Bergman; in Swedish), with Ingnd Bere-
man,Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, and Hal-
var Bjork; and “Face to Face”(+).
Jan. 7-8 “The Exterminating Angel” (1962;
Luis Buel;in Spanish), withSilvia Pinal,
and “Leonor”
Jan 9-10° “The Godfather” (1972; Francis
Ford Coppola), with Marlon Brando andAl
Pacino, and “The Godfather, Part II”
1974,’ Francis Ford Coppola), with Al
acino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and
Robert De Niro.
Recency, Bwayat 67th (724-3700)
‘Through Jan 3. “Bringing Up Baby” (1938;
SeMeT-WeTeFeS
31 1 213
445 Gt Cit 8 9 10
Howard Hawks), with Katharme Hepburn,
Cary Grant, and Charles Ruggles; and
“Holiday” (1938; George Cukor),’ with JanStritch,
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lew
‘Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, and Doris
olan.
Jan. 4-5: “Jane Eyre” (1944; Robert Steven-
son), with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles,
and'“A Man for All Seasons”(1966, Fred
Zinnemann), with Paul Scofield, Robert
Shaw, and Leo McKern.
Jan. 6-7: “The 400 Blows” (1959; Francois
Truffaut; in French), withee re Lé-
aud; and “Stolen Kisses” (1968; Frangois
‘Truffaut; in French), with Jean-Pierre Le-
aud, Delphine Seyrig, and Claude Jade
Jan, 8-10: “You'll Never Get Rich” (1941; Jan. ‘9-10. “Breathless” (1959; Jean-Luc
Sidney Lanfield), with Fred Astaire, Rita
Hayworth, Robert Benchley, and’ John
Hubbard; and “Broadway Melody of 1940"
Tuaua, Bwayat 95th. (222-3370)
‘ThroughJan. 3: A program of surrealist films TueaTre 80 St. Marks, 80 St. MarksPl. (254-7400)
Jan, 4: “Last Tango in Paris” (1972; Bernar-
do Bertolucci; in French and English), with
Marlon Brando and Mana Schneider; and
“A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951, Elia
Kazan), with Vivien Leigh, Marlon Bran-
do, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden
Jan.’5: “Paris, Texas” (1984; Wim Wenders),
with Harry DeanStanton, Nastassja Kinski,
and DeanStockwell; and “Hammett” (1983:
Wim Wenders), with Frederic Forrest
Jan_ 6: “Underground U S.A” (1980; Eric
Mitchell), with Patti Astor, and “The Way
It Is”(1986; Eric Mitchell).
Jan. 7: “The Return of Martin Guerre” Jan 4: “The Americanization of Emily”
(1983; Daniel Vigne; in French), with Gé-
tard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye; and
“MonOncle d’Amérique” (1980; Alain Res- Jan.Coburn;
nais; in French), with Gérard Depardieu,
Nicole Garcia, and Roger-Pierre
Jan 8: “Blow-Up”(4); and “Zabriskie Poinv”
(1970, Michelangelo Antonion), with Mark Jan, 6 “Flamingo Road” () and “Sadie
Frechette, Daria Halprin, and Rod Taylor
Jan. 9-10: “Blade Runner” (1982; Ridley Jan. 7: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”
Scott), with Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer,
Brion James, Joanna Cassidy, and Daryl
Hannah; and “The Road Warrior” (1982,
George Miller), with Mel Gibson.
Tuauia SoHo, 15 Vandam St. (675-0498)
Dec 31: “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”
(1970, Russ Meyer); and “Barbarella”
(1968; Roger Vadim), with Jane Fonda,
John Phillip Law, and David Hemmings
Jan. 1- “The Joyless Street” (“The Street of Jan, Welles),
Sorrow;” 1925, G. W Pabst; a German
silent film), with Greta Garbo; and “The
Saga of Gésta Berling” (1924; Mauritz
Suller; a Swedish silent film), with Greta
Garbo and Lars Hanson.
Jan, 2-3: “The Return of Martin Guerre” Museum oF Mopern At, Roy and Niuta Titus
(1983, Daniel Vigne; in French), with Gé-
rard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye, and
“Les Compéres” (1984; Francis Véber, in
French), with Gérard Depardieu andPierre
Richard.
Jan, 4: “Last Year at Marienbad” (1961;
Alain Resnais; in French), with Delphine
Seyrig; and “Providence” (1977, Alain Res-
nais), with Ellen Burstyn, Dirk Bogarde,
john Gielgud, David Warner, and Elaine
(1977,
5: “That Obscure Object of Desire”
Luis Bufuel, in French), with Fer-
nando Rey, Carole Bouquet, and Angela
Molina; and “Nazarin” (f).
: “Gun Crazy” (1949, Joseph H
ewis), with Peggy Cummins; and “The
Undercover Man” (1949; Joseph H. Lewis),
with Glenn Ford and Nina Foch.
Jan 7: “Five Easy Pieces” (1970; Bob Rafel-
son), with Jack Nicholson; and “The Last
Detail” (1974; Hal Ashby), with Jack
Nicholson, Otis Young, and Randy Quaid
Jan. 8: “Open City” (1945; Roberto Rossel-
lini; in Italian), and “Bellissima” (+)
Godard, in French), with Jean Seberg and
Jean-Paul Belmondo, and ‘Made in
USA.” (1967; Jean-Luc Godard; in
French), with Anna Karina.
Through Jan. 1! “Roman Holiday” (1953,
William Wyler), with Audrey Hepburn’
Gregory Peck, and Eddie Albert, and
“Breakiast at Tiffany's” (1961, Blake Ed-
wards), with Audrey Hepburn, George Pep-
par) Patricia ‘Neal, Martin ‘Balsam, and
Mickey Rooney.
Jan. 2-3: “Wuthering Heights” (1939, Wil-
ham Wyler), with Merle Oberon, Laurence
Ohvier, Flora Robson, David Niven, and
Geraldine Fitzgerald; and “Jane Eyre”
(1944, Robert Stevenson), with Joan Fon-
tame and Orson Welles
(1964; Arthur Hiller), with James Garner,
Jule Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, and James
and “Victor/Victoria” (f).
§: “October” (‘Ten Days That Shook
the World,” 1927; Serger Eisenstein; a Rus-
sian silent film), and “Potemkin” (}).
McKee”(#).
(1935; Stuart Walker), with Claude Rains,
Valerie Hobson, Heather Angel, Douglass
Montgomery, and David Manners, and
“The List of Adrian Messenger”(+)
Jan. 8: “Sherlock Holmes and the Secret
Weapon” (1943) and “The Woman in
Green” (1945), two films in the Basil Rath-
bone-Nigel Bruce Holmes-Watson series,
both directed by Roy William Neill.
9-10: “Mr Arkadin” (1955; Orson
with Welles, Michael Redgrave,
Patricia Medina, and Akim Tamiroff, and
“The Stranger” (1946 4).
FILM LIBRARIES, ETC.
Theatres, 11 W. S3rd St. (708-9490;a limit-
ed number of tickets are available to those
applying for them in person at the museum
after 11 on the dayof the showing.)
‘THEATRE I: Jan. 1 at 2:30 and 6° “The Rulesof
the Game” (1939; directed by Jean Renoir;
in French, with English subtitles). ...@ Jan
2 at 2:30: “The Small Back Room”(“Hour
of Glory;" 1949; Michael Powell and
Emene Pressburger), with David Farrar,
Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, and Leslié
Banks. Jan."2 at 6. “Noose” (“The
Silk Noose,” 1948, Edmund T. Greville),
with Carole Landis, Derek Farr, Joseph
Calieia, and Stanley Holloway. .'@Jan 3
at 2 “The Curse of Frankenstein” (1957;
Terence Fisher), with Peter Cushing, Chris”
topher Lee, and Hazel Court. ..@Jan. 3
at 5: “Dracula” (“Horror_of Dracula,”
1958; Terence Fisher), with Peter Cushing,
Christopher Lee, and Michael Gough!
Jan, 4 at 2:'“The Houndof the Bas-
kervilles” (1959; Terence Fisher), with
Peter Cushing, André Morell, and 'Chris-
topher Lee ...'@ Jan. 4 at 5: ‘The Gorgon”
(1964; Terence Fisher), with Peter Cushing
and Christopher Lee... Jan. 5 at 2:30:
“Yield to the Night” (“Blonde Sinner;

1956; J. Lee Thompson), with Diana Dors,
Yvonne Mitchell, and Michael Craig.
...@Jan. 5 at 6: “The Perfect Woman”
(1949, Bernard Knowles), with Patricia
Roc, Stanley Holloway, and Nigel Patrick.
_.- WJan. 6 at 2:30:“The Clouded Yellow”
(2950, Ralph Thomas), with Jean Simmons,
revor Howard, and Kenneth More. .
GJan. 6 at 6 “The Hasty Heart” (1949;
Vincent Sherman), with Ronald Reagan,
Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd. . @ Jan.
8 at 2:30 and 6: “The Grapes of Wrath”
(1940; John Ford), with Henry Fonda and
lane Darwell....@ Jan. 9 at 2:30: “The
Sleeping Tiger” (1984, Joseph Losey), with
Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, and Hugh
Griffith... Gjan. 9 at 6: “The Intimate
Stranger” (‘Finger of Guilt;” 1956; Joseph
Losey), with Richard Basehart, Mary
Murphy, Constance Cummings, and Roger
Livesey.. .@Jan. 10 at 2 “Blind Date”
(Chance Mesting;” 1959; Joseph Losey),
with Hardy Kriger, Stanley Baker, and
Micheline Presle.. .@ Jan. 10 at 5: “The
Criminal” (“The Concrete Jungle;” 1960;
SEE ABOVE FOR THEATRE ADDRESSES AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS.
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Joseph Losey), with Stanley Baker, Sam Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, and
Wanamaker, Margit Saad, and Jill Bennett. Claude Rains. @Jan. 8 at 3 and 6:30:
tHeatee 2 Jan. 2 at 3: “Le’Tourno: dans la “Let Ye Inherit (In Memory of 425,000)”
Cité” (1929; Jean Renoir; a French silent (1985; Imre Gyongyossy, Barna Kabay,
film, with French intertitles), with Jackie and Katalin Petenyi), a documentary. ...
Monnier and Aldo Nadi...’@Jan. 2 at @Jan_9 at 3: “Bob le Flambeur” (1955,
6:30: “Tarakanova” (1929; Raymond Ber- Jean-Pierre Melville; in French with En-
nard; a Frenchsilentfilm, with French in- lish subtitles), with Roger Duchesne and
tertitles), with Edith Jehanne, Olaf Fjord, isabelle Corey....@Jan. 9 at 6:30: “Bay
and Rudolf Klein-Rogge....@Jan 3 at of Angels’? (1963, Jacques Demy, in
2:30. “La Proie du Vent” (1927; René French, with English subtitles), with
Ciair; a French silent film, with French in- leanne Moreau, Claude Mann, and Paul
tertitles), with Charles’ Vanel, Sandra uers. ... @ Jan. 10 at 2:30: “Pickpocket”
Milowanoff, and Lilian, Hall-Davis. oo Robert Bresson, in French, with
GJan, 3 at 5.30: “Le Tourno: dans nglish subtitles), with Martin La Salle
Cite” "Gyan 4 at 2.30: “Conte Cruel” and Marika Greene. ..GJan. 10 at 5:30
(4929; Gaston Modot; a Frenchsilent film “Bob le Flambeur.”
with French intertitles), with Modot, and Wuirwey Museum, Madison Ave. at 75th St. ($70-
“Dans la Nuit” (1929; Charles Vanel; a 0537)—“The' Black Woman Independent:
French silentfilm,with French intertitles), Representing Race and Gender,” a program
with Vanel and’ Sandra Milowanoff. .. of twelve films and videos. The schedule of
Jan. 4 at 5:30: “Tarakanova.”... 4 Jan § performancesis complicated, our best advice
at 6:30: “Conte Cruel” and “Dansia Nuit.” is to phone the museum for film and time
...@Jan_6 at 3 and 6°30: “Casablanca” schedules. Closed Mondays and New Year's
(1942; Michael Curtiz), with Humphrey ry.
IN BRIEF

Betuissima (1951)—Thefilm is a satirical view Robert Rossen film “The Hustler,” in which imalist comedy about American anomie, shot
of the movie-studio world of Cinecitta, and is Eddie, the new poolroom champion, quit in black-and-white. The setting is New Or-
also perhaps Luchino Visconti’s warmest the game Now he's a silver-haired Chie leans, where two deadbeats—Jack, an
comedy. It’s marred by a too pat ending, but cago liquor salesman,a likable cynical shar ineffectual, pimp (John Lurie), and Zack, an
atits center is the great Anna Magnani as a ie who himself stakes young hustlers (for itinerantdisk jockey (Tom Waits)—become
screen-struck mother, determined to make a sixty Per cent of their winnings) ‘When he the victims of frameups and are put in the
star of her plain hitle five-year-old (Tina sees the raw, cocky upstart Vincent (Tom sameprison cell, where they vegetate in hos
Apicella). With Alessandro Blasetti, Walter Cruise), he makes a deal to train the kid. tle silence Everything changes when a nt-
Chiari, and Gastone Renzelli. From’a script Newman brings off some beautiful smiling
Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Francesco Rosi, and deviltry. The kick he gets out of acting is Benigni), is put in withRoberto
tle, life-loving Italian,
them;
(Roberto
the three
isconti. The assistant’ directors were ’Rost inseparable from Eddie’s con artistry, and, become pals, grinning and talking together.
and Franco Zeffirelli. In Itahan. (Thalia with the help of pungent low-life dialogue by And, eventually, Roberto devises an escape
SoHo;Jan. 8)
Biow-Ur (1966)—Michelangelo Antonioni con- nies the action along. But about. midway plan. Jarmusch’s passive style has its wit, but
Richard Price, who wrote the script, he car-
the
ducts a leisurely tour of “swinging” London, the joy goes out of Newman’s performance, in Roberto—a style is deadening here until he brings
lingering over the flashiest routes and daw which (despite the efforts of a lot of good ac_ With Ellen Barkin, character out of folk humor.
dling over a pot party and a mini-orgy, while tors) is the only life in the movie. With Mary Braschi, Rockets Redglare, Bilhe Neal, Nicoletta
ponderously suggesting that the mod’ scene Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, For- neris. (10/20/86) (Quad Cinema. and Vernel Bag-
. @ Olym-
represents a condition of spiritual malaisein est Whitaker, John Turturro, and Bill Cobbs. pia Quad. Evenings only )
which people live only for the sensations of g8/86) (Eastside Cinema, and Embassy Face ro Face (1976)—Ingmar Bergman's relent-
the moment. Yet despite Antonioni’s nega- less chronicle the edging toward break-
tivism the world he presents looks harmless, Crimes oF tHE Heart—Diane Keaton, Jessica downof
and sex without “connecting” doesn’t really Lange, and Sissy Spacek playing sisters and Her skilla womanpsychiatrist
lies in hauling
(Lav Ullmann).
others outof night-
seem so bad. With David Hemmings, Vanes- sparking off each other are something to see. mares without falling prey to them herself.
sa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Verushka, Jane he play, by Beth Henley—a comedy about Why,then, does she take a near-fatal over-
Birkin, and Peter Bowles.’ Cinematography wacked-out normality, set in Hazlehurst, dose of sleeping pills? Bergman makes it seem
by Carlo Di Palma. (Thalia; Jan. 8.) Mississippi_—has its goofy charm; it’s thin
Biue Vewer—Written and directed by David material, though, and her screen adaptation no woman
enigma that this apparently reposeful
1s within reach of the long arm of
Lynch, this ts possibly the only coming-of-age is just the usual “opening out ” But the three blight. Thefilm is a marvelously vivid and
movie in which sex has the danger and the actresses put so muchfaith in their roles that thoughtful—and,surprisingly, witty—record
heightened excitement of a horror picture. they carry the movie, triumphantly. They of an unhappy mind’s oscillation between
The film is consciously purplish and con- take the play’s borderline pathos about ease and agitation. In Swedish. (Cinema Vil-
sciously funny, and the two work togetherin heartbreakingly screwed-up lives—it’s a lage, Jan. 4-6.)
an original, down-home way Thesetting 1s mixture of looniness and lyricism—and give Fiaminco Roap (1949)—Joan Crawford, the
an_archetypal small, sleepy city in an in- Xt real vitality, These are inspired perfor- screen’s supreme masochist, at 1t again’ This
defimite mythic present that feels like the mances. With Sam Shepard, Tess Harper, time, she’s a carnival hootchy-kootchy dancer
past, and Kyle MacLachlan isJeftrey, the David Carpenter, and Hurd Hatfield. Direct stranded in a small town; she gets involved
clean-cut young man who's scared of his dirt) ed (without much fia) by Bruce Beresford with a weakhng—Zachary Scott, the same
thoughts (but wants to have them anyway (12/15/86) (34th St East, Manhattan, heel who betrayed herin “Mildred Pierce”—
He commutes between the blue lady of the RKO Art Greenwich Twin, Loews 84th and she’s implicated in murder again, and
night(Isabella Rossellini, who’s a dream of a Street Sixplex, and Criterion Center.)
freak) and the sunshinegirl heloves (Laura Tue Dectine oF tHe American Emeire—The she has the samedirector, Michael Curtiz.
Dern). The movie has so much aural-visual French-Canadian writer-director Denys Ar- James M.script Cainisms
Butthe lacks the mythic, overwrought
of the earlier film. It’s
humorandpoetry that it’s sustained despite candtakes on the subject of sex in a period of ust garishlyoverwrought. David Branis the
the wobbly plot and other weaknesses. With social change, without the binding ues of
Dennis Hopper, whogives the movie a jolt of family andreligion or strong commitment to herome; he seems not to see inwhat
local political boss whofalls love with the
horrific energy, and Dean Stockwell, whois a the future—sex in a period when the eight that she’s rigid, monstrous. WithweSydney see—
smiling wonder as Ben the sandman. Also principal characters (aging middle-class in- Greenstreet, Gladys George, and Gertrude
with Hope Lange, Priscilla Pointer, Brad tellectuals connected with the. History De- Michael. (Theatre 80 St. Marks, Jan. 6.)
Dourif, and Jack Nance. (Reviewed in’ouris- rtment of a Montreal university) no longer Hearrereax Rioce—It's well known’ that many
sue of 5/22/86.) (Waverty.) elieve in postponing pleasure. On this
Broapway Melony oF 1940—Fred Astaire, Elea- Fridayafternoon in autumn, the women work people course,
have strongfeelings about analinter-
but it’s doubtful if a whole movie had
nor Powell, and George Murphy. That's a lot out together at a gym in the city while the ever been devoted to the expression of those
of tapping Astaire and Murphy are both men, gathered ata lakeside cottage, prepare feelings until
hoping to get the Broadway role opposite the a festive dinner Both groupstalk about sex, directed, playsthis (so
one. Clini Eastwood, who
to speak) a Medal of’ Hon-
dancing star, Powell, by mistake, the pro- and when they're together in the long eve- or winner from the Korean War and a deco-
ducers hire Murphy,but Astaire gets to play ning they go on talking aboutsex, but more rated Vietnam vet—a Marine gunnery ser-
it afterall. This is a big, lavish M-G-M mu- discreetly—with less bawdiness and bravura
sical, with a Cole Porter score and lots of Arcand isn’t out to expose these people as geant Passive
whose abhorrence of being put in a
sexual position seems to be what
spectacular dancing; what’s missing is ro- spiritually empty; he’s trying to present a makes him
mance, sensuousness, magic. With Frank truthful fook at how theylive. There’s noth- rinesin his super-tough and manly. The ma-
Morgan, Ian Hunter, and Barbara Jo Allen ing weighty in his approach;it’s a lovely, Gunny wrapshis jowls around platoon stand waiting while Old
(Vera Vague) as a receptionist. Directed by very unassumingpicture, yet there is enough rilousinsults, all involving what witless scur-
Norman Taurog. The choreography is by As- dramaso that by the end a subtle shift in all shove up their orifices. This should be the he’s going to
taire and Bobby Connolly. (Regency, Jan. 8- therelationships is necessary. And the fore portrait of a pathetic vulgarian mulitarist
10.) round action and theflashbacks that had with terrible anal-aggressive problems, but
Tue Couor of Money—This Martin Scorsese film een providing the background begin to Eastwood presents him as a great fighting
takes up Paul Newmanas Fast Eddie Felson merge. In French. (12/15/86) (Paris )
twenty-five years after the close of the 1961 Down sy Law—Jim Jarmusch’s low-key min- man, a relic of a time when men were men.
And, in the last half hour, the film presents
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State 2. — Tue Morwinc Arter—Jane Fonda gives a
proof of what Gunny’s training does for his
platoon: it celebrates Grenada as a victory
that evensthescore, aftera tie in Korea and
a loss in Vietnam. This movieis offensive on
just about every level Written by James
Carabatsos; with Marsha Mason, Mario Van
Peebles, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen
Heckari, Bo Svenson, Boyd Gaines, and Arlen
Dean Snyder. (12/29/86) (Manhattan,
R.K.O. 86thSt. Twin, 23rd St. West Triplex,
and R.K.O. Warner Twin.)
Tue Leopar> (1963)—It’s magmificent—a
sweeping popular epic, with obvious similari-
ties to “Gone with the Wind,” and with an
almost Chekhoviansensibility. It has a hero
on a grand scale—Don Fabrizio, Prince of
Salina, played superlauvely by Burt Lan-
caster, who modelled his performance on the
noblemandirector Luchino Visconti. The film
is set in the eighteen-sixties, when Italy was
in the middle of a revolution, butit’s essen-
tially about the Prince himselfi—the agin;
Leopard—and how he reacts to the social
changes. With Alain Delon, Claudia Car-
dinale, Paolo Stoppa, and Rina Morelli. In
Italian; three hours andfive minutes, (Public
Theatre; starting Jan 2.)
Tue List oF Aorian Messencee (1963)—This de-
tective-story film has manyofthe pleasures
of the gerire—phonetic clues, some fancy
murder methods,a foxhunt, a war-hero detec-
tuve. The leadingroles are played by George
C. Scott and Kirk Douglas, and there are
several guest stars who appear, or were ad-
vertised as appearing, in disguise (Tony Cur-
tis, Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and
Burt Lancaster). John Huston directed. The
cast includes Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper,
Marcel Dalio, and Dana Wynter. (Theatre 86,
St. Marks; Jan. 7.)
Men... —When the handsome, self-centered
Julius (Heiner Lauterbach), a Munich adver-
tising executive, discovers that his wife (Ul
rike Kriener) has been having an affair with
theoafish Stefan (Uwe Ochsenknecht), a long-
haired boheman, he wants to know what
Stefan’s attraction is, so he assumes a false
name and moves in with him. Julius takes
some kind of revenge byturning Stefan into
an orderly bourgeots with a regularjob; while
that happens, whimsical gags are tossed to-
gether with a jocular femumst exposé of men’s,
attitudes toward women, The picture is
harmless and insipid, m the mode of French
farces such as ‘Cousin, Cousine;”it sags in
the middle and then collapses in an absurdist
ending Written and directed by Doris
Dorrie. In German (9/8/86)(Lincoln Plaza.)
Menace—Thefirst half hour of this sex farce
wonderfully brisk and slam-bang_ provoc
tive: the writer-director Bertrand Blier
violates old formulas and experiments with
ideas of subversion and chaos, Gérard Depar-
dieu is the burglar who, at night in a café,
overhears the callous bitchy wife, Miou
Miou, bawling out her loving husband, Mi-
chel Blanc, because he can’t make enough
money to please her Enamored of the mousy
husband, Depardieu takes the two along on
his surreally easy burglaries, waiting for his
chance to bed the man. By the ume that
Miou-Miou has beensold to a pimp and the
two menare in drag, working asprostitutes,
Bheris trying so hard to be outrageous that
heloses the beat; the outrageousness comes to
seem another kind of bondageto formula In
French. (CinemaStudio )
Mona Lisa—Directed by the Irish novelist
turned moviemaker Neil Jordan, the whole
movie has someof the potency of cheap mu-
sic that’s represented by thé ttle song (in
Nat King Cole’s 1950 recording) Theshort,
chunky Bob Hoskins is tremendousas a one”
time petty crook, just emergedfrom. prison;
giventhe job of chauffeuring a blackcall girl
(CathyTyson) on her nightly rounds, hefalls,
in love with her. Shesets himto searching for
a friendshe’s worried about—a blondfifteen-
year-oldheroin addict. As he makes his way
through the strip joints and whores’ hang-
outs, he’s sickened’ by the waythegirls are
mistreated, and hesees thathis old boss (Mi-
chael Caine)is in the rotten thick of it, Jor
dan shows a gift for making the emotional
atmosphere visual, and vice versa. And the
way he uses baroque touches andthe clichés
of oldthrillers they become part of a fluid,
enjoyable texture. With Robbie Coltrane,
Clarke Peters, and Zoe Nathenson. Script by
Jordan and David Leland, (6/16/86) (Film
Forum.)
raucous-voiced, down-in-the-dirty perfor-
mance that has some of the charge of her
 17
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
Bree in “Klute,” back in 1971 As Alex, a it, With Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Lonette
formerscreen actress whose career blewup in SMe TeWs Teles McKee, John Berry, Martin Scorsese,
scandal, she still has her face and her figure, Philippe Noiret, and manywell-known mu
but she has a hard, tortured look under her sly 1 {213 sicians. (DW.Griffith, and Metro Cinema )
fluffy blondhair, and she drinks so much she Sapie_McKee (1934)—Joan Crawford, in her
has ‘blackouts. ‘(Fonda has said that she 4}5}6]74)8{9jf1I0 ruffies-on-the-shoulders days. She’s a poor
modelled the character on the starlet Gail ‘working girl, but surrounded by. glamorous
Russell, who,at thirty-six, was found dead in men—Franchot Tone, Edward ‘Arnold, and
her apartment, among empty liquorbottles.) Brussels in 1958, as it was in 1950, and at Gene Raymond. An archetypal example of
In the opening scene, she wakes up in bed just about every other competition. “Potem- the M-G-M romanticgloss and glitter. Clar-
Thanksgiving morning with a manshe can’t in” has achieved such an unholy eminence Akim ence Brown directed. With Esther Ralston,
remember even meeting; he has a knife stick- that few people any longer dispute its merits. Tamiroff, Jean Dixon, and Leo Carrillo’
ing out of his heart. ‘The director, Sidney Great as it undoubtedlyis, it’s not really a ‘Sue's Gotta 80 (Theatre SU Marks; Jan. 6.)
Lumet, keepsthings efficiently paced, but he hikable film, it’s amazing, though—it keeps Have ft—The Voluptuous, easygoing
coasts for too long on Fonda's work and on
the polished bitchiness of the dialogue; he its freshness and its excitement, even if you Nola (Tracy Camila Johns), @ graphic de-
doesn’t build the thriller elements that would signer
resist its cartoon message. Perhaps no other in Brooklyn, is happily juggling wholives in the’black bohemian world
givethe film the kick it needs, and he fails to moviehas ever had such graphic strength in three lovers
establish a couple of the important char- its images, and the young director Sergei whenshe’s faced by a mockcrisis: each of the
acters (played by Raul Julia and Diane Eisenstein ‘opened up a newtechnique of three men hasturned possessive and wants to
Salinger, both miscast). The solid Jeff be her one
psychological stimulation by meansof rhyth~ this quick-witted sex comedywritten, direct- and only. That's the premise of
Bridges, who plays opposite Fonda, could be mic editing—‘“montage.” Thesubject 1s the
a good foil for her flare-ups, and if their rela~ 190S mutinyof thesailors of the battleship ed, and edited by the twenty-mine-year-old
Uonship had been developed maybe they Potemkin, and the massacre of the people days, onLee,an who Spike
almost
shot it in 16-mm. in twelve
nonexistent budget. Nola,
would be more vivid and resonate a little, who sympathized with them, Butpolicies in her three lovers, and her family and friends
and would survive what was happening the USSR changed, mutiny couldno longer explain themselves directly to the camera,
around them. But all the forced, phony be sanctioned, nor could experimental film
elements come together at the end and bring techniques, and underStalin Fisenstem was can’t shoot a movie much cheaper bed;
and thefilm's basic set is Nola’s
or
you
faster
the picture down Thescriptis attributed to purged, partially reinstated, and then ell than that. Lee's economies become part of
James Hicks (a pseudonym for James Cres- irom grace over and over. “Potemkin”looks what's enjoyable about the film, and he keeps
son); others who worked onit include David astonishingly like a newsreel, and the po- 1 all bouncing along. With Tommy Redmond
Rayfel_and Jay Presson Allen. (12/29/86) litically naive have often taken it as a Hicks, John Canada ‘Terrell, and Lee himself.
(Bay Cinema, Gotham Cinema, 86th St “documentary.” The more knowing have a (10/6/86)
East, Waverly, Embassy 72nd St., and graceful euphemism: Kisenstemn, they say, Center.
(Quad Cinema, and Criterion
R.K.O National Twin.) "sacrificed historical facts for dramatic Tue StRANGER (1946)—The onlyconventionally
My Beaurirut Launorerte—A startlingly fresh effect.” Silent, with added musical sound- made narrative film that Orson Welles ever
track. (Theatre
movie aboutlife in South London among the A Room with 4 View—Adapted 80 St. Marks; Jan, 5.) directed. It’s a smooth, proficient, somewhat
surly white street gangs and the Pakistani from the early
immigrants. In the foregroundis a loveaffair novel by EM. Forster, this is a whimsical languorous thriller—quite watchable, but the
between a dark-eyed, softly handsome, al- social comedy about a muddled young En- credited, John script (by Anthony Veiller and, though un-
most flowerlike Pakistani teen-ager, Omar glish girl (Helena Bonham-Carter) who de- Huston) is cleverin a shallow
(Gordon Warnecke), and a young blondstreet sires yet fears sexual love; she runs away way: the people need more dimensions Ed-
lout, Johnny (Daniel Day Lewis). They from the man (Julian Sands) who stirs her ward G. Robinson plays an F.B I. war-crimes
become partners when Omar persuades his emotions, and becomes engagedto a rich twit investigator on thetrail of a Nazi big shot
slumlord uncle (Saeed Jaffrey) to let him (Daniel Day Lewis). Bonham-Carter lacks the (Welles) who has taken false identity andis
have a ratty-looking failed laundrette, and carriage and presence of a trained actress, hiving in a small town in Connecticut, teach-
the twoboys,using stolen money, turn 1t into andSands1s playing Forster's flimsy—almost ing in a prep school; his wife (Loretta Young)
thelaundretteof their flashy dreams. Direct abstract—dream of a natural, uninhibited knows nothing of his past. Welles’ perfor-
ed by Stephen Frears, from a wittyscript by lover, and 1s rather vague But’ the movie 1s mance is so flagrantly, boyishly unconvinc-
the young playwright Hanif Kureishi, the well paced, and it never loses its hold on a evil ing—the Nazi seems’ preoccupied by his
viewer's affections, because it’s so thoroughly amusing superman thoughts—that it’s rather
film catches you up in the racketeering and
decay of modern big-citylife: you feel that inhabited. It’s more than a little precious, With Konstantin Shayne, Philip
your blinders have been taken off. It's an but it’s a piece of charmingfoolishness. With Merivale, Richard Long, and Brian Keith.
enormouspleasure to see a movie that’s real- Denholm Eliott, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, True Stories—This (Theatre'80 St Marks; Jan. 9-10.)
ly about something, and that doesn’t lay on Simon Callow, and Rosemary Leach. It was David Byrne, of Talking first feature directed by
any syrupycoating to make the subject go directed by James Ivory, irom a script by Heads,is laid out
downeasily (It's down before you noticeit.) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ‘that pares down like a musical-comedy documentary about a
‘Thecastincludes Shirley Anne Field, Roshan the text skillfully and takes much of its town, except that the town—Virgil, Texas—
Seth, Rita Wolf, and Souad Faress (3/10/86) lively, dizzy dialogue directly from Forster. is imaginary. Byrne, the narrator and ob-
(BleeckerSt. Cinema.) (3/24/86) (Quad Cinema, and Embassy server, intréducesus'to the townspeople who
72nd St.)
Nazanin (1958)—Thehero, Nazarin, is a gentle Rouno Mipict—Most of Bertrand Tavernier’
are aboutto take partin the pageantry of the
Mexican priest—a Candide who 1s robbed Texas Sesquicentennial with their own “Cele-
and cheated—in this simple, masterly, am- mournful, blue-toned movie, which, an open bration of Specialness.”” Byrne 1s looking for a
biguous film by Luis Buiuel, which 1s’(per- ingtitle tells us, was “inspired by’ incidents true mythic image of America; Virgil is Our
haps in spite of his intention) his most in the lives of Francis Paudras and Bud about banality and eccentricitytheand
Town, it’s Anytown, US.A., and movie is
tender. A womanoffers Nazarin a pineapple Powell,” is set in Paris in 1959. The French sumerism Byrne sets up the material con-
and her blessing. Nazarin is so stubbornly jazz. enthusiast Paudras is now called Francis, satirical sequences, yet he doesn’t give forit
proud thatit’s a struggle for him to accept, rier andis played by Francois Cluzet, and a satirical spin. The picture's tone is often
and Bufiuel himself is so proud that he will Powell, the great bebop pianist, whosuffered
hardly allow the scene to have any weight. frequent nervous breakdowns and then made insecure, matographer’
but, working with the crack cine-
Ed Lachman, Byrne brings
Humihty is very difficult for him; he just a newlife abroad,is now the dazed, alcoholic a new visual sensibility to the screen (a
tosses in the pineapple. He’s determined ‘not tenor-sax man Dale Turner, and is played by respect for pared-down plainness), and ai-
to give in to the follyof tenderness, butit’s the near-legendary Dexter Gordon. The en- ter a rather shaky opening the characters
there. With Francisco Rabal. In ‘Spanish. thusiastis a saintly groupie. You know what themselves begin to engage us. With John
(Thalia SoHo,Jan. 5.) kind of movieit’s going to be when you see Goodman, Jo Harvey Allen, Tito Larriva,
Pecey Sue Gor Marrico——Distressed by her mari- this guy out in a drenching rain, crouched
tal troubles, Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner), against the building where the American is Spalding Gray, Annie McEnroe, andKurtz,
Roebuck’ (Pops) Staples, Swoosie
Alix
the mother’ of two grownup children, col” playing, because he doesn’t have the money has, The script is by Byrne, Beth Henley,
lapses at the twenty-fifth reunion of herhigh- to go in. Cluzet is soaking wet, but his eyes and Stephen Tobolowsky. (10/20/86) (8ih
school class, and when she wakes up she di shineand he listens to Dexter Gordon's music St Playhouse.)
covers that she has gone back in umeto the worshipfully. The French are pretty hard to Vicror/Vicrorta (1982)—The writer-director
spring of 1960. Directed byFrancis Coppola, take when ihey celebrate how muchthey love Blake Edwards’ rough-and-tumble boudoir
this is_a dream movie that asks whether American art. You may come out with the farce centers on Jule Andrewsas Victoria, an
Peggy Sue, knowing whatshe does at forty. feeling that Tavernier is proud of the gloomy
three, should marry the same boy—passion- dullness of the movie, that he sees virtue in English
pretends
singer
to be
strandedin
a man so
Paris in 1934, who
that she can get
ate Charlie (Nicolas Cage), the only man she
ever dated—knowing that he'll turn into the @ work as a female impersonator. Edwards
man whointroduces himself on television as
pulls laughs with the crudest setups and the
Crazy Charlie, the Appliance King. The un- moldiest, most cynical dumbjokes. This is an
derlying question is. Should Peggy Sue recon-
audience pleaser in the worst sense. As an ag-
cile with her husband or go ahead and get a
ing homosexual entertainer who trains Vic-
divorce? Coppola’s efforts to bring depth to
toria to pass as Victor, Robert Preston plays
this material that has no depth makethe pic-
a sentimental stereotype so heartily and like
ture seem groggy.It’s as if he were trying to
ably that he redeemis the musty material.
reach through a veil of fog. With Barbara
This picture features speeches about sexual
Harris, Barry Miller, and Kevin J O'Connor.
politics that are the latest in show-biz en-
(10/20/86) (Quad Cinema, and Criterion
lightenment; it also features a chorusline,
headed by Lesley Ann Warren, that maybe
Center.)
Poremkin (1925; also known as “The Battleship
the most contemptuous display of women’s
Potemkin")}—Voted the greatest film of all
bodies ever seen in a major-studio movie.
time by an international panelofcritics in
With James Garner and Alex Karras
(Theatre 80 St. Marks; Jan. 4.)
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 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Notes and Comment stood inside a square delimited by and enclosed with one another in a
pieces of decoratively enamelled, very place that is not home and noticing
E havereceived anotherletter yellow metal suspended from theceil- one another but, of course, not smiling
W from the manenraptured with ing: “Orr Hour Warrinc Area,” or addressing one another.
the seasons: they said, and their yellow suggested I think most of us there recognized
The other day, in an ambitious sunlight. Up and down the long plat- the moment as a public one, an
wind that jostled shoppers on upper form (this was at Eighty-sixth Street), occasion not entirely successful, not
Broadwayinto little, unexpected steps people sat on benches, leaned against exactly triumphant—not one of the
to the side (itself like a shopper in pillars, stood at the edge of the con- triumphant occasions of American
Woolworth’s, in Bloomingdale’s, try- crete bank of the shadowy river. culture, or one of the great things
ing to get past), I gave up myidea of Whenthe crowd builds to thatsize at about Manhattan, either. But in the
walking to midtown. This was in the that station, it generally means that general famineoflight the faint glow
afternoon, about two—often the warm- the trains are late—there is a problem of the urban glances (edgy and mak-
est time now. I covered a couple of in the system. Seven or eight wide- ing a claim of being bored) had a
blocks and crossed wide Broadway eyed people stood in front of the Manhattan empathy, and maybe more,
toward the subway. The corners news kiosk. Its light shone outward on though maybe I imagined it: a warmth
where last week fir trees had crowded their faces over a glossy multitude of expressed with constraint but verging
the sidewalks and drowned the smells figures waiting to be bought—a gaudy on a seasonal incaution, almost semi-
of the street in resinous odor were population of the acclaimed and en- brotherhood. Maybeit was just a pub-
empty under an ugly, low-slung sky, viable and scandalously in trouble on lic-transportation hidden hysteria in
and the unencouraging Christmas magazine covers and the front pages of the grim tubes, welcoming something
decorations were juddering ceaselessly newspapers. There they were, being to look at and accepting the unnatural
in the wind. I went downinto the sub- stared at and considered, maybe sight- city kinship of random company, and
way, past maybe a Brearley senior lessly. And there we were,a speechless doing it to a sophisticated degree—I
tearing helplessly at a plastic package party of balked travellers, Yet not mean welcomingtheoddities here, and
of tokens, and I put my token in the entirely speechless: in pairs, in some the sad general weirdness of a subway
slot of the turnstile and squeezed my groups, people were talking to each and of taking it in the middle of the
way throughthat guardianstrait, with other. But mostly the people at this afternoon,each of us being a me and
its ratchet bars—they are meant for landing were intent on their news- here (a what-am-I-doing-here thing),
whatsize people with whatsort of hips papers or (in a few cases) books, or on and so on.
and clothes, I wonder. And I entered their thoughts, but not deeply, except Actually, I am thinking mostly of
the gloomy, heartbroken half-light in two who looked deranged and penni- the people here who were between the
the cavern at the edge of the dry riv- less. “Not deeply” means that people ages of twenty-one and forty, who
erbed of tracks set in an unchanging glanced surreptitiously or quickly, and were white and unbroken, who
forest of steel columns, which as if incuriously, at whoever passed weren’t limply or mutteringly or an-
did afford the sight of some distant them, at everyone who cameonto the grily hors de combat, and who were
souls on the other side of that buried, platform, or nearly everyone, depend- with no one, although some of the
unclean river. It was a daylight ing on the looker’staste in glancing at paired or grouped people also glanced
hour—as such things go in midwin- people. We were party, or were like around in this same key. I think it is
ter in New York—butit had been es- a party in the sense of being a group of difficult to describe the whole group,
sentially gray on the street. Now I knowing people linked for a moment or crowd—an American group so
20
momentary in its full contemporary ous a selection, it’s probable that the Here there was only variation. I would
splendor of pluralisms. I know of no group here still represents only a not have thought a slowing prosperity
other modern circumstance that can handful of the elements of the Amer- would do up so many so differently.
match the vocabulary-snapping plur- ican social order. And then you might The real and unreal noses. The skin
alisms of a crowd, the populace, on ask yourself how three social classes colors. The colors and varieties of
certain Manhattan subwaysat certain can possibly be enough to define us. hair. Of the four or five insolently
pretty much accidental hours: the ‘Twenty-five would be too few to en- and cryptically (and, paradoxically,
social and psychological and physical compass just the financial variationsovertly) stylish people, Manhattan-
diversity, the diversity in age, in de- visible here, let alone on the train once
cosmopolitan in their heavily encoded
grees of hope and kinds of style and it gets here and goes from station to outfits, each,as time passed, openly, but
moral and immoral intention (as a station, district to district in Man- without forwardness, somewhatpoint-
political and class and religious and hattan. What an eerie community edly acknowledged the others who
metaphysical matter). I mean style modern-day America has become. were stylish in that fashion butstylish
across the board. Whatfaces do while Weren’t we supposed to be growing differently. One woman, maybe the
wearing earphones, for instance: pub- more and more homogenized? Of richest, acknowledged noone; her coat
lic, unpublic, changeable, cautious, course, perhaps what we have become was hiddenlyspectacular. I was aware
resolutely alert, bitterly lost. That’s is a cultural anarchyin the dispersion of this from having been told about
just one matter. Scarves and necks: and pervasiveness, the availability and that coat and showna pictureof it by a
turtlenecks, ties, open collars or bare lessening availability of money. woman I know;otherwise, I wouldn’t
necks even in this weather. Or a hid- The souls gathered here, the have penetrated the secret of its chic
den matter: father-stepfather, eco- jewelry they wore, their barbered hair, discretion. Everyone had somesort of
nomics and father complications. The the eyeglasses, the postures—nothing style, good or bad. Oneguy, in metal-
age range is from a year old to seven- was echoed or repeated enough to sup- timmed glasses and a kind of formal
ty-something—that is my guess. The ply a category. Nothing you could call topcoat, very young—rosy-cheeked,
over-all range is so broad as to seem an East Side slouch or West Side actually—was reading Barron’s
intellectual hoo-haw or a West Point Weekly and chewing gum (I think it
senseless, but, of course, it must mean
something. Even thoughthisis so riot- or Corn Belt look of outer rectitude. was gum) and wearing somehow
baggy lace-up black leather shoes,
maybe very advanced and almost cer-
tainly cheap. A short, not thin young
woman with what a fashion photog-
rapher mightcall an “important face”
was wearing dark glasses and had
truly improbable red-tasselled mittens.
A tall madwoman had a dirty mink
coat and a safari hat with a brim. A
good-looking man, not young, had on
cowboyboots and a lined denim jacket
and a fur cap: he was not young but
hadvery longhair.
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express track, with a shrill, hammer-
ingly spasmodic, ear-tearing and
mind-humiliating uproar extended
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wi

dragon noise. While it lasted, people

“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but poorer-looking and much more poorly
the truth, and not in some sneaky relativistic way?”
swayed or winced orstiffened or fold-
ed in on themselves, anemonelike, or
seemed to tremble chatteringly and
then reassemble themselves when the
trains had gone,leaving behind echoes
and squinting eyes—squinting with
slow recovery from aural pain. Then
those trains ceased. Meanwhile, people
kept arriving, including some quite old
people, one man awareof his presence
as an image of strangeness in this ad-
venture-laden and half-lit dark place,
and looking alert and somehow naive
and profound, and a woman, much
dressed, seeming to be awareoflittle
 “We're here to experience pleasure.”

except the difficulties of what she was couldn’t think of the proper terms in varyingness of economicfate, to a lack
doing and the patience and fortitude whichto catalogue what I saw. What of variety in that area. I wondered
and suspicionshe needed to do it with.would the categories be—hair ma- what all-encompassing or archetypal
Shaking a little from the noise and niacs, proper hair maniacs, improper platoon wouldbe in a war movie now.
the tension of waiting, and knowing I hair maniacs, hair ascetics, hair volup- What would the clichés be? Where
would probably be late now for an ap- tuaries, expressive hair, dumb hair? have the old clichés gone? Whatif
pointment in midtown, I calmed or Then started trying to get an idea of they had never existed? Would one
distracted myself by cataloguing how the range of health, going bythevisi- haveto rethink the past?
manyearringed people there were, and ble degrees of health. Druggedness Then, without announcement or
earringed so variously, from mere counted as ill health and rated as a explanation, the wait ended; a stain-
splinters of glitter, through a typeset- forty on a scale of one to fifty, with less-steel train rocked and bumped and
ter’s store of dots, hoops, and “O”s, up fifty being in the grip of death—but no staggered into the station and bucked
to Ping-Pong-ball-size hoops, and one was that skinny or damaged this to a standstill and hissed, and maybe
up to plastic constructions the size day. A man in glasses, maybe late two dozen pairs of doors slid more or
of harmonicas (ona tall, long-haired, twenties, and wearing only a regular less apart in imperfect unison. So, the
straight-haired woman with a heavily tweed jacket and a woollen shirt open brightly lit alcoves of the cars opened
powdered face and nolipstick and rim- at the neck and wearing nohat and no to the gloomyjetty. People gotoff, and
less glasses and wearing a white socks and only open sandals—bare the crowd present got on. We moved
leather hat with a blue plastic see- toes—was a one minus, the minus for into the brighter light of the cars and
through visor). Then I catalogued the my thinking he was a fool. I soon gave were locked in. Then we were in
haircuts, the arrangements ofhair: full up: it was too upsetting a subject, and I motion, rumbling along in thesystole,
and bushy, strict and skimpy, waves, felt too pale and cold andtoo starved diastole of track lights and darkness
curls, fluff, and dreadlocks, pom- of light to rate myself with a number I outside the windows. In the brighter
padours, bangs, straightforward falls, could bear. I wondered if people’s jobs light, I looked around and thought
braided falls. The degrees of expense, had as muchvariety as people’s styles. how sad everyone looked—but not
so many degrees of expense, the sig- I decided no—thatthe variety arose in
everyone, not the teen-agers, who
nals—I wished I understood them. I contradistinction to a widespread un- looked mostly willful and nearly out of
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their minds with nervous and physical travelled with its burden, a quietly any of the New Yorkbarrio orstreet
amazement at themselves. They were jouncing carload of uncategorizable or borough ways I knew of. They
at sea on dry land.In this setting, the fragments of the anarchic American were strange-looking. Their faces
palely discursive eyes of the platform polity. Some clues, not unpredictable, were partly backcountry faces, may-
becamesealed,like envelopes addressed to our social nature—thesocial nature be—not happy. So the cultural anar-
to the proper-improper business of of some of us—emerged. The same chy of the rest of us was nottotal: we
being on a subway amonghalf strang- people gave money to both beggars, werea specific group, an army platoon,
ers—blatantly messageless. Nothing and the givers were mostly women and and here were some people whodidn’t
was loose or apparentin terms of what the young. Then, as the car dis- fit in with us and made a category
someone thought: everyone wassilent charged passengers andrefilled at Lin- of us after all.
and withdrawn,potentially a witness. coln Center, more blanks couldbefilled I’m sorryto take so long, but I don’t
The differences in skin colors and in, up to a point. Musicians. Music know a short way to describe this
national types and the incomprehen- lovers. Ballet-ticket buyers. Neighbor- thing. The children, all six of them,
sible range of variations in econom- hood people wholiked opera. Foreign were everything their parents were
ic sophistication seemed even more travellers sampling our culture. Sensi- not: good-humored and rich-spirited
strongly visible in this light, and more tive people, maybe. There were still within the confines of their social
so yet as people got on at the nextsta- some young people on the train, but whatever, half shy and half mannerly,
tion. No grouping—not evena pair- fewer—maybe only two of them. at once wild and well tended: interest-
ing of two beggars hobbling through Then, at Fiftieth Street, seven adults ing-looking and passionately childlike,
the car in opposite directions, both of and six children got on together, black American andreleased, freed, without
whom were one-legged—seemedplau- and Hispanic, and black Hispanic; and a lot of surface fear and rigidity, and
sible. No two people seemedsufficiently all the adults, who were loaded down at home in the day. The children had
related to make a pairing likely. One with packages, had that quality—it’s clearly entered on lives that were very
of the beggars was good-sized and one you see sometimes—ofbeing real- unlike those of their parents. What
fine-faced, clean and clear-eyed and ly foreign to what was around them sort of lives? What lives were being
long-suffering and likable, and the and at odds with what was foreign to offered them? Familiar lives are what
other was crushed but angry and ter- them, not with their own foreignness. I mean the children had, I think—
tifying in the sorrow ofall that he had I mean,if pathoscanbeself-righteous, familiar to us. The subway, the
been excluded from andall thathislife that’s one brand ofit. And they didn’t country, the hidden American epic,
included. The mind does make an en- look like good-humored people; they the at-this-moment-in-time thing of
velope of itself and is purely in transit weren’t rich within the confines of being acculturated American children,
past the presence of such sights. their social whatever, or passionate- middle class in a way, honored
The train, largely soundproof, looking, or greatly alive, or stylish in travellers on the gravy train. The kids
were stylishly dressed, were well
dressed, were knowingly dressed—as
their parents were not—and their
faces showed comfort andintelligence
and nota lot of foreignness,if any. I’m
certain the grownups weretheir par-
ents: the resemblances, for one thing,
and the affection. And the kids had the
look of being with their parents. The
kids had that odd spiritual look that
American kids get when they go shop-
ping with their parents: they convert it
into a kind of goodness and a matter of
charity, a matter of the spirit.
I don’t want to say that what hap-
pened next was a hopeful sign. I’m not
sure what I think about what hap-
pened. The people in the subwaycar,
the crowd, the anarchic and fairly
random group, madeaneffortto clear
a way for the children and the pack-
age-bearing adults. They hadn’t done
this for other people with kids, white
or black, olive or yellow. Everyone,
even the old, made way for them, I
mean all the colors already present did
this, and they did it with brief and
simple mannerliness and with maybe
American and maybeeven tear-jerking
sentiment. No one pompously stood
up: people oozed to their feet; seats ap-
“I suppose I should have let a few minutes elapse between declaring peared. Noone smiled obtrusively, but
my love for you and announcing that I also loved lobster.” the atmosphere was formidably social,
 “Pomp, greed, conquest, intrigue—it’s been a fun year, hasn't it?”

sort of here-is-something-we-like. Their children’s bright politeness and species, open in natural rebellion
Most of the people I could observe superiority were a militance but also an against the weather; we open to each
without craning my neck were early separation from their parents— other and to certain holidays. As the
deadpan but weresliding around mak- a militance or unacceptance in that daylight hours shorten, we neither
ing room on the seats or shifting direction, too. The children did not, drowse norflee but celebrate in widely
themselves as they stood in order to and would not, share their parents’ disparate and kind of scarily separate
make room, or merely looking on in moods. In silent agreementof a sort, ways. And wealso join ourselves in
a kind of joining-in way. The chil- hardly complete and utterly untested truly strange ways on ski slopes and in
dren had that faintly spoiled, slightly in terms of any strength of feeling or shopping centers and on subways to
awed look of children being admired of serious regard, the crowd, as know- our fellow-shelterers in the cave that
by a roomful, or carload, of people. ing, I think, as a crowd ata sports the days have become. I swear to you
The grownups, with their packages, event, as instructed, as conversant, and that everyone in the car—even the
seemed harassed, slightly worn, not as factional—herein the matter of so- madwoman downat the end—glanced
particularly friendly or grateful or cial opinion—expressed a social opin- around to see who was looking and
comprehending or surprised: they ion. Thecrowdin this matter of black- who agreed and who disagreed about
didn’t expect this reaction; they didn’t white or white-Hispanic interplay had these people. It was the oddest, damned-
seem curious about it, either. They its opinion ready, and it had decided est, most piercing event. For me, it
seemed foreign to it. Their voices that it admired these people who did was a stark or bare-bones display of
were loud. Their faces, their voices, not admire it except in the testimony what for wantof a better term I'll call
their manner emanated (I thought) a of what the children were. our onward-lurching, unsettled, old-
frazzled antagonism, rebelliousness, I don’t want to judge the event. and-new democracy in America, in
militance, a rough honesty within a This time of the year, in this span of New York at this time of the year,
foreign frame. And maybe exhaustion. cold days, we, the most perverse of at this time in the history of the world.
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HER WAY sure that’s not his real name.) “Mel-
ville was tall, intense, bearded, aloof
E all knew Kitty. She was business. We’re only her parents.” —everything Kitty was after,” says
always asking you questions. Yet she had that something, that a mutual friend. “Herman Melville
Everybody wasused to seeing something that you can’t define or became a kind of obsession with
her family’s namein the phone book. even recognize. Yet it was always her. Melville was cruel to her, but
In that same phone book were the there. That something. Finally some- then I guess you could say that Kitty
names of many known criminals. A body learned how to take advantage of was the same way toward him. They
Mr. Ted Bundyappears. Al Caponeis that something. The man for the job also both havereally big lips, don’t
there. William Bonney, who had the turned out to be Magic Johnson (not youthink?”
same name as the infamous Billy the his real name). “I thought that if I Melville and Kitty. They chased
Kid,also appears. could get Kitty to say nothing good each other over several continents.
“I remember Kitty tape-recording about anybody for maybe three or four Once, after one of their notorious
meall the time,” says Don Johnson months, if we could just pack it all in quarrels, Melville locked himself in a
(nothis real name). “Everybody knew like that, then we would reallybe after footlocker with some ricotta cheese
Kitty. By the time she was twenty, something,” Magicsaid. “I knew that andsaid not to bother him unless Kitty
she’d already tape-recorded everybody the moodof the country was just right apologized. The next day they were
in the neighborhood twenty or thirty forit.” all lovey-dovey, walking hand in hand
times.” to see an illegal pit-bull fight. It was
Kitty was, right from the start, a ey the early days, Kitty could only all a gameto them.
leader. She organized the pep club at say bad things about people under One night Kitty happened to pick
her high school, was active in her twenty-five. In time, it became vital up a copy of “Moby Dick.” She read
church,played the piano, and tripped for her to be able to speak badly of the inscription:
up farm animals. everyone, no matter whatthe age. Al- In token of my admiration for his genius
“She was a very busygirl,” said Ed most immediately, as if by instinct, she this book is inscribed to Nathaniel Haw-
(Too Short) Smith, a longtimefriend amazed. everyone by saying that Ber- thorne.
of the family (nothis real name). “She nard Baruch liked to tongue-kiss. All
was the first person that ever told me over the country people picked up on “You could have fried an egg on
to pour borax in my ear. She was this. There was someone new on the her forehead when she saw that in-
always the person you would go to in horizon, and this someonehad nothing scription,” says a close friend, who
emergencies.” nice to say. didn’t want meto refer to him by any
Her parents understood how much name. “I tried to explain the big mis-
Her climb was meteoric. She be- take she
tape-recording meant to her at an came, overnight, a household word. was making, but it was no
early age. Her father was a carpet Her work appeared in every major use. I told her that Melville and Natty
installer and her mother was, at one magazine and her books were read Hawthorne went way back together.
time, one of the majorinterpreters of everywhere. She appeared on talk Everybody knows that the two of them
Thomas Holcroft and a damn good shows, news shows. She continued, and Bronson (Lips) Alcott played in
hand with anything hydraulic (not however, to trip up farm animals. the same sax section for Kay Kyser
their real jobs). “We gave her ev- “Why not?” she might have said. (not his name, but close). She just
erything,” they probably said. “We “They’rethere, aren’t they?” wouldn’t listen to reason when she got
don’t feel real great about the way she in one of her moods. She was almost
Then Kitty met Herman Melville, suicidal. The
turned out, but that’s none of our and everything changed. (I’m pretty next day, though, I’d see
her and Melville like a couple of love-
birds, monkeying with some Tylenol
packages.”
Of course, Kitty and Melville were
never meantto be. After “the Herman
thing,” as her friends called it, Kitty
fell into many arms—and of course
she screamed.
Someone whoclaims to have known
Kitty says, “She has her problems.
Who doesn’t? But all in all she’s a
kind and loving person, and a wonder-
ful tape-recorder operator, and a ter-
rific person who wouldn’t think twice
about writing a book about anybody
whogotin her way.”
—Frank Gannon
.
CLEAR DAYS ON THE RETAIL
SCENE
(Adv. for Landau in the Times]
The Salko Loden coat, impeccably
tailored of double-faced interwoven 100%
Wool Lodenfabric thatfeels like iron, yet
wears like Cashmere.
“Could you pick me up? Pm between a rock and a hard place on Thirty-ninth Street.”
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FROM A JOURNAL OF THE YEAR OF THE OX
—20 January 1985 OrAeneas with the golden bough
—January, sweeping through Hell.
the dragon maple sunkin its bones, O we were luminous in our ignorance O we weretrue.
Thesky gray gouache and impediment.
Pity the poorpilgrim, thesetter-forth,
Under a sweepso sure, Form comes from form,it’s said:
pity his going up and his going down. nothing is ever ended,
How shall we hold on, wheneverythingbrightfalls away? A spilling like shookglass in theair,
Howshall we know whatcalls us Water over water,
when what’s past remains what’s past flameoutof flame,
Andunredeemed,the crystal Whatever wecan’t see, whatever we can’t touch,
And waveringcoefficient of what’s ahead? unfixed and shining ...

Thursday, purgatorial Thursday,

The Blue Ridge etched in smoke And today I remember nothing.
through the leaded panes of the oak trees, Thesky is a wrung-out, China blue
There, then notthere, and hides no meanings.
A lonesquirrel running the powerline, Thetrees have a pewter tinge and hide no meanings.
neck bowedlike a tiny buffalo... All ofit hustles over melike a wind
and reminds meof nothing.
Whatsifts us down through a blade-change Nobody rises out of the ground in a gold mist.
stays hidden from us, Nobodyslides like an acrobat
Butsifts us the same, outof the endless atmosphere.
Scores us andalters us utterly: Nobody touches myface
From somewhereinside and somewhereoutside, it Or hand.
smooths us down. Not a wordis said that reminds me of anything
AndO itis cold now bythe fake Etruscan urn
Andsix miniature box bushes
Here’s your Spook, Indacosaid, nobody standsbeside
slidingthe imitation Sandeman’s sherry figurine In the real wind tightening its scarf
Toward mealong the bar, memento Aroundthe white throats
And laughingstockof the 163rd, of everyone whois not here.
stamped outby the thousands Thecold, almostsolid,lies
At Nove, two hoursup the road.
Like snow outside
It’s usually a ceremony,all of your colleagues in the tufted spikes of the seed grass
Andfellow-officers standing absurdly about And footprints we didn’t leave
Happyyou’re leaving, and you,too, Thatcross the driveway and disappear up the frontsteps.
everyone half drunk It’s not the darkness wedie of, as someonesaid,
Andhilarious in his cordovan shoes. seamless and shut tight
As water we warm upandrock in,
Butnot this time, Indaco wadding the paper sack up,
He and someone whose nameI can’tcall back Butcold, the cold with its quartz teeth
Andfingernails
letting me go for good, and gladofit:
I’d lost one document, I wore my hair long, I burnedit that wears us away, wears us away
by accident Into an afterthought.
And no oneever forgot. Ora glint
Downthere by the dwarf spruce andthe squirrel run.
Such small failures, such sleeveless oblivions Oroneof the absences wholips at the edge
Wepassed through of understanding
trying to get ourlivestofit right Wherever I turn,
In what was available from day to day, as pursed andglittering as a kiss.
Andart,
and then the obvious endofart, that grace —30 January 1985
Beyondits reach —Thesunset, Mannerist clouds
I'dsee each night as I thumbed the Berensons just shy of the Blue Ridge
Andargued with Hobart and Schneeman Gainsay the age before they lose their blush
that what’s outside In therising coagulation offive o’clock.
Thepicture is more important than what’sin. ‘Twodark, unidentifiable birds
‘They didn’t agree any more than Indaco had, swoop andclimb
Outof the picture, the white-slatted, red-roofed
All of us hungeringafter righteousness Munch house
Like Paul Cézanne, we thought,in his constancy. Gatheringlight as the evening begins to clot.
 27
Thetrees dissolve in their plenitude One,oneand byone weallsift to a difference
into a dark forest Andcry outif one of our branches snaps
Andstreet lights comeonto stare like praying mantises or ourbark is cut.
downon us. The winter sunlight scours us,
Next morningall’sinside out, The winter windis our comfort and consolation.
the winter trees with their nervous systems Wesettle into our ruin
Snatched up and sparkless against the sky.
Lightlies without desire on the black wires One,one and by oneas weslip from clear rags into
And the white wires, feathery skin
the deadleaves sing like gnats, Orjuice-in-the-ground, pooled
Rising andsettling back when the wind comes. And bidingits time
How does one deal with whatis alwaysfalling away, backwashed underthe slick peach tree.
Returning diminished with each turn? One,one and by one thrust up by the creek bank,
The grass knows, stunnedinits lockjaw bed, Huddled in spongy colonies,
butit won’ttell. longingto be listened to.
—7 February 1985 Here I am, here I am, weall say,
—Westandatthe green gates, Pmback,
substitutes for the unseen Rustle and wave, chatter and spring
Rising like water inside our bodies, Upto the air, the sweetair.
Stand-ins against the invisible: Hardened around the woodpecker’s hole, under his down,
It’s the blank sky of the page Weall slip into the landscape, one, one and by one.
—notthe wordsit’s never the words—
That backgroundsourlives: —27 April 1985
It’s you always you and not your new suit
—April, and mirror-slide of the fatal quiet,
Thatelicits solicitude:
‘The unknownrepeats us, and quickens our in-between. Butterflies in a dark confusion over the flower’s
clenched cheeks,
Winteris like that—abstract, Thesmell of chlorophyll
flat planes andslashes, climbing like desperation across my skin:
TheBlue Ridgelike a worm’s back The mapleis flocked, and the sky is choked with cloud-tufts
Straight ahead,
one skewed hump andthen a smooth one, Thatprint a black alphabet
Hallelujah of tree branches andtelephone poles along thehillsides and short lawns,
In front, and a house or two and a nurse: Block gutturals and half-thoughts
February music, Againstthe oily valves opening andclosing in the leaves,
high notes anda thin linestrung Edgy, autumnal morning,
Forus to cleave to, black notes April, stretched out at ease above the garden,
Someone is humming we haven’t been introduced to: that rises and bows
Like the stone inside a rock, To whateverit fancies:
thestillness of form is the center of everything, Preciousstones, the wind’s cloth, Prester John or the
Inalterable, always at ease. boy-king of Babylon,
—13 February 1985 April,
dank, unseasonable winter of the dead.
—Therain,in its white disguise,
has nothingto say to the wind
That carries it, whose shoulders
—15 May 1985
It slips from giving no signal, aimlessly, one drop —In thefirst inch of afternoon, under the peach trees,
At a time, no word The constellations of sunlight
Orgesture to whathascarried it all this way for nothing. Sifting along their courses among the posed limbs,
Thisis the disappearanceweall dreamed of when young, It’s hard to imagine the north wind
Without apology, tougher than water, no word wishing usill,
To anyone, Revealing nothing atall and wishing usill
disguised as ourselves In God’s third face.
And unrecognizable, unique, Theworld is an ampersand,
Andindistinguishable from what wedisappeared into. AndI lie in sweet clover,
bees like golden earrings
—25 February 1985 Dangling and lockedfastto its white heads,
—One, one and by one weall slip into the landscape, Watching the clouds moveandthe constellations
Under the muddy patches, of light move
locked in the frozen bud Throughthetrees, as they both will
Of the down-leafed rhododendron, Whenthe wind weathers them ontheir way,
Orblurred in the echoing white of a rabbit’s tail Whenthe wind weathers them to that point
Chalked on the winter’s dark where all things meet.
in the back yard or the driveway. —Cuartes Wricut
28

cal looked across at him and said, “I

DEDE wantto be a bachelor, like Dédé.”
was from Alsace. He reminded her
ascAL Brouertis fourteen now. His mother moaned, “Oh, no!” and.
Pe used to attend a lycée, but how the poet Paul Eluard had picked covered her face. The magistrate
after his parents found out about up his future wife in the street, on a waited until she had recovered before
the dealers in the street, outside the rainy evening. She was from Alsace, speaking. She looked up, smiling, a bit
gates, they changed him to a private too, and starving, and in a desperate, embarrassed. Then he explained,
school. Here thesituation is about the muddled, amateurish way pretending slowly and carefully, that Dédé was
same, but he hasn’t said so; he does not to be a prostitute. too young to be considered a bachelor.
want to be removed again, this time Well, this was not quite the same He was a student,a youth. “‘A student,
perhaps to a boarding establishment, story. In 1968 the future Mme. Brouet a student,” he repeated, thinking per-
away from Paris, with nothing decent wasstudying to be an analyst of hand- haps that if he kept saying it Dédé
to eat and lights-out at ten. He would writing, with employment to follow would study hard.
not describe himself as contriving or —so she had been promised—in the Dédé had a button of a nose that
secretive. He tries to avoid drawing personnel section of a large depart- looked ridiculous on someonesotall,
attention to the Responsibility clause ment store. In the meantime, she was and a massofcurly fair hair. Because
in the treaty that governs peace be- staying with a Protestant Reformed of the hair, the magistrate could not
tween generations. Church pastor and his family in Rue take him seriously; his private name
Fustel-de-Coulanges. She had been on for Dédé was “Harpo.”
Like his father, the magistrate, he
will offer neutrality before launching her way home to dinner when she That period of Pascal’s life, nine
into dissent. “I’m ready to admit,” he stopped to pick up the stone. She had a rounding to ten, was also the autumn
will begin, or “I don’t want to take mother in Alsace, and little brother, before an importantelection year. The
over the whole conversation...” Amedée—“Dédé.” elections were five months off, but al-
Sometimesthe sentence comes to noth- “Sylvie and I have known both sides ready people argued over dinner and
ing. Like his father, he lets his eyelids of the barricades,” the magistrate likes Sunday lunch. One Sunday in Octo-
droop, tries to speak lightly and to say, now. What he means is that ber, the table was attacked by wasps,
slowly. The magistrate is famous for they cannotbe crowdedinto a political drawn in from the garden by a dish of
fading out of a discussion by slow corner. The stone in the hand has sliced melon—the last of the season,
degrees. At one time he was said to be made her rebel, at least in his recol- particularly fragrant and sweet. The
the youngest magistrate ever to fall lections. She never looks at a newspa- French doors to the garden stood
asleep in court: he would black out per, because of her reputation for being open. Sunlight entered and struck
whenhe thought he wasn’t needed and against absolutely everything. So he through the wine decanters and dis-
snapto just as the case turned around. says, but perhaps it isn’t exact: she solved in the waxed tabletop in pale
Apparently, he never missed a turning. looks at the pages marked “Culture,” red and gold. From his place, Pascal
He has described his own mind to to see what is on at the galleries. He could see the enclosed garden, the
Pascal: it is like a superlatively smooth reads three morning papers at break- apartment blocks behind it, a golden
car with an invisible driver in control. fast and, if he has time, last evening’s poplar tree, and the wicker chairs
The driver is the magistrate’s uncon- Le Monde. Reading, he narrows his wherethe guests, earlier, had sat with
scious will. eyes. Sometimes he looks as though their drinks.
To Pascal a mindis a door, ajar or everything he thinks and believes had ‘There were two couples: the Tur-
shut. His grades are good, butthis side been translated into a foreign language bins, older than Pascal’s parents, and
of brilliant. He has a natural gift—a and, suddenly, back again. the Chevallier-Crochets, who had not
precise, perfectly etched memory. How been married long. Mme. Cheval-
will he use it? He thinks he could as HENPascal was aboutnine, his lier-Crochet attended an art-history
easily become an actor as a lawyer. father said, “What do you sup- course with Pascal’s mother, on
When he tells his parents so, they pose you will do, one day?” Thursday afternoons. They had never
seem not to mind. He could turn into They were at breakfast. Pascal’s been here before, and were astonished
an actor-manager, with a private the- Uncle Amedée was there. Like every- to discover a secret garden in Paris
atre of his own,or the director of one one else, Pascal called him Dédé. Pas- with chairs, grass, a garden rake, a
of the great national theatres, commis- tree. Just as their expression of amaze-
sioning new work, refurbishing the ment was starting to run thin and
classics, settling questions at issue with patches of silence appeared, Abelarda,
a word or two. newly come from Cadiz, appeared at
The Brouets are tolerant parents, the door and called them to lunch. She
ready for anything. They met for the said, “It’s ready,” thoughthat was not
first time in May of 1968, a few yards what Mme. Brouet had asked her to
away from a barricade of burningcars. say; at least, not that way. The guests
She had a stone in her hand; when she got up, without haste. They were
saw him looking at her, she put it probably as hungry as Pascal but
down. They walked up the Boulevard didn’t wantit to show. Abelarda went
Saint-Michel together, and hetold her on standing, staring at the topmost
his plan for reforming the judiciary. leaves of the poplar, trying to remem-
He was bit older, about twenty-six. ber whatshe oughtto have said.
Answering his question, she said she A few minutes later, just as they
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“There, there, dear. It’s only a commercial.”

werestarting to eat their melon, wasps in-law another reason for calling him Mme. Chevallier-Crochet remarked
came thudding against the table, like Harpo. Sitting down, he seemed to that Pascal was tall for his age, then
become entwined with his chair. He asked what his age was. “Heis almost
pebbles thrown. The adults froze, as
though someone had drawn a gun. wastoo tall ever to be comfortable. He ten,” said Mme. Brouet, looking at
Pascal knew thatsitting still was a needed larger chairs, tables that were her son with some wonder. “I can
good way to be stung. If you waved both higher and wider, so that he hardly believe it. I don’t understand
your napkin, shouted orders, the wasps would not bump his knees, or put his time.”
might fly away. But he was not ex- feet on the shoes of the lady sitting Mme. Turbin said she did not have
pected to give instructions; he was opposite. to consult a watch to know the exact
here, with adults, to discover how con- Pascal’s father just said, “So, no time. It must be a quarter to two now.
versation is put together, how to sound more melon.” It was something he If it was, her daughter Brigitte had
interesting without being forward, particularly liked, and there might be just landed in Salonika. Whenever her
amusing without seeming familiar. At none now until next summer. If Dédé daughter boarded a plane, Mme.
that moment, Dédé did an unprece- had asked his opinion instead of jump- Turbin accompanied her in her mind,
dented and courageous thing: he ing up so impulsively, he might have minute by minute.
picked upthe platter of melon, crawl- said, “Just leave it,” and taken a “Thessalonika,” M. Turbin ex-
ing with wasps, and tookit outside, as chance ongetting stung. plained.
far as the foot of the tree. And came Well; no more for anyone. The The Chevallier-Crochets had spent
back to applause: at least, his sister guests sat a little straighter, waiting their honeymooninSicily. If they had
clapped, and young Mme. Chevallier- for the next course: beef, veal, or mut- it to do over again, they said, they
Crochet cried, “Bravo! Bravo!” ton, or the possibility of duck. Pascal’s would change their minds and go to
Dédé smiled, but, then, he was al- mother asked him to shut the French Greece.
ways smiling. His sister wished he doors. She did not expect another wasp Mme.Brouetsaid they would findit
wouldn’t; the smile gave his brother- invasion, but there might be strays. very different from Sicily. Her mind
30 JANUARY5, 1987

was on something else entirely: Abe- wrong. The room Pascal slept in had Pascal saw the candidates lined up
larda. Probably Abelarda had expected been that child’s summer bedroom;the like rugby teams. He was allowed to
them to linger over a second helping house had once been a suburban, al- watchrugby ontelevision. His parents
of melon. Perhaps she was sitting in most a country dwelling. Now the did not care for soccer: the players
the kitchen with nothing to do, listen- road outside was like a highway; even showed off, received absurd amounts
ing to a program of Spanish music on with the doors shut they could hear of moneyjust for kicking a ball, and
the radio. Mme. Brouet caught a Sundaytraffic pouring across an inter- there was something the matter with
wide-awake glance from her husband, section, on the way to Boulogne and their shorts. “With all that money,
interpreted it correctly, and went out the Saint-Cloudbridge. they could buy clothes thatfit,” Pas-
to the kitchen to see. The magistrate replied that he did cal’s mother had said. Rugby players
One of the men turned to M. not want to take over the whole con- weredifferent. They were the embodi-
Brouet, wondering if he could throw versation but he did feel safe in saying ment of action and its outcome, in
some light on the election candidates: this: Several men, none of whom he an ideal form. They got muddied for
unfortunate stories were making the had any use for, were now standing love of sport. France had won the
rounds.Pascal’s father was often asked face to face. Sometimes he felt like Five Nations tournament, beating even
for information. He had connections washing his handsof the future. (Say- the dreaded Welsh, whose fans al-
in Paris, like stout ropes attached to ing this, he slid his hands together.)
ways set up sucheerie wailing in the
the upper civil service and to politics. However,before his guests could show stands. Actually, they were trying to
Onesister was married to a Cabinet shock or disappointment, he added, sing. It must have been the way the
“But one cannot remain indifferent. early Celts joined in song before the
minister’s chief of staff. Her children
were taken to school in a car with aThis is an old country, an ancient Roman conquest, the magistrate had
red-white-and-blue emblem. The civilization.” Here his voice faded out. told Pascal.
driver could park wherever heliked. “We owe...One has to... A cer- Nooneat table could have made a
The magistrate’s grandfather had be- tain unbreakable loyalty...” And he rugby team. They were too thin. Dédé
gun as a lieutenant in the cavalry and placed his hands on the table, calmly,
was a broomstick. Of course, Pascal
died of a heart attack the day he was one oneachsideofhis plate. played soccer at school, in a small
appointed head of a committee to over- At that moment Mme. Brouet re- cement courtyard. The smaller boys,
see war graves. His portrait, as a child turned, her cheeks and forehead pink, aged six, seven, tried to imitate Michel
on a pony, hungin the dining room. as if she had got too close to a hot Platini, but they got everything
Theartist was said to have copied a oven. Abelarda came along next, to wrong. They would throw the ball
photograph; that was why the pony change theplates. She was pink in the high in the air and kick at nothing,
looked so stiff and the colors were face, too. leg crossed over the chest, arms spread.
The magistrate kept
an eye on the dish
Abelarda was now
handing around: par-
tridges in a nest of
shredded cabbage—an
entire surprise. Pascal
looked over at Dédé,
who sat smiling to
himself, for no good
reason. (If Pascal had
continuedto follow his
father’s gaze he might
be told gently, later,
that one does notstare
at food.)
There was no more
conversation to be had
from M. Brouet, for
the moment. Helping
themselves to par-
tridge, the guests told
one anotherstories ev-
erybody knew. All the
candidates were in a
declining state of
health and morality.
One had to be given
injections of ground-
V up Japanese seaweed;
otherwise he lost con-
“Have the papers ready, Miss Mitchell—we’re into the choreography.” sciousness, sometimes
THE NEW YORKER 31
in the midst of a sen-
tence. Others kept go-
ing on a mixture of co-
caine and Vitamin C.
Their private means
had been acquired by
investing in gay bars
and foreign wars, and
evicting the poor.
Only the Ministry of
the Interior knew the
nature and extent of
their undercover fi-
nancial dealings. And
yet some of these men
had to be found better
than others, if democ-
racy was not to come
to a standstill. As M.
Brouet had pointed
out, one cannot wash
one’s handsof the fu-
ture.
The magistrate had
begunto breathe even-
ly and deeply. Perhaps
the sunlight beating
on the panes of the
shut doors made him
feel drowsy.
“Etienne is never
quite awakeor asleep,”
said his wife, meaning “That was not a quote, that was an original.”
it as a compliment.
She was proud of
everyone related to
her, even by marriage, and took pride mar (firm handshake with the magis- did not want to have to pass anything
in her father, who had run away from trate at the Gare de |’Est, tears and to Harpo. Mme. Brouet was really just
homeandfamily to live in New Cale- chocolates from his sister, presentation speaking to herself.
donia. He had shownspirit and a sense of an original drawing from Pascal), That autumn, Dédé worked at a
ofinitiative, like Dédé with the wasps. he had accidentally set fire to his correspondence course, in preparation
(Now that Pascal is fourteen, he has mother’s kitchen, then to his own bed- for a competitive civil-service exami-
heard this often.) But pride is not the clothes. Accidents, the insurance peo- nation. If he was among the first
same as helpless love. ‘The person she ple had finally agreed, but they were dozen, eliminating perhaps hundreds
loved best, in that particular way, was not too pleased. His mother was at the of clever young men and women, he
Dédé. present time under treatment for ex- would be eligible for a post in the
haustion, with a private nurse to nation’s railway system. His work
EDE had come to stay with the whom she made expensive presents. would be indoors, of course; no one
Brouets because his mother, Pas- She had about as much moneysense as expected him to be outin all weathers,
cal’s grandmother, no longer knew Harpo, the magistrate said. (Without trudging alongside the tracks, looking
what to do with him. He was never lifting his head from his homework, for something to repair. Greatartists,
loud or abrupt, never forced an opin- Pascal could take in nearly everything leaders of honor and reputation, had
ion on anyone,but he could notbe left uttered in the hall, on the stairs, and got their start at a desk in a railway
without guidance—even though he in two adjacent rooms.) office. Pascal’s mother, whenever she
could vote, and was old enough to do Whenthey wereall four at break- said this, had to pause, as she searched
someof the things he did, such as sign fast Mme. Brouet repeated her her mindfor their names. Therailway
his mother’s name to a check. (Admit- brother’s name in every second sen- had always been a seedbed of outstand-
tedly, only once.) This was his second tence: wondering if Dédé wanted more ing careers, she would continue. She
visit; the first, last spring, had not toast, if someone would please pass would then point out to Dédé that
sharpened his character, in spite of his him the strawberry jam, if he had their father had been a supervisor of
brother-in-law’s conversation, his sis- enough blankets on his bed, if he public works.
ter’s tender anxiety, the sense of pur- needed an extra key. (He was a great After breakfast Dédé wound a long
pose to be gained by walkinghislittle loser of keys.) The magistrate ex- scarf around his neck and walked Pas-
nephew to school. Sent home to Col- amined his three morning papers. He cal to school. He had invented an
apartment with movable walls. Every- trate and to visit a rare old house, one have seen a needle or two. Needles
thing one needed could be got within of the last of its kind still in private were only a meansto an end.
reach by pulling a few levers or press- hands. Before lunch Mme. Turbin Mme. Brouet glanced at her hus-
ing a button. You could spend your had asked to be shown around. Mme. band, pleading for help, but he had
life in the middle of a room without Brouet conducted a tour for the just put a bite of food into his mouth.
having to stir. He and Pascal refined women, taking care not to open the Hewas always last to be served when
the invention; that was what they door to Dédé’s room:there had been a there were guests, and everything got
talked about, on the way to Pascal’s fire in a wastepaper basket only a few to him cold. That was probably why
school. Then Dédé came home and hours before, and everything in there he ate in such a hurry. He shrugged,
studied until lunchtime. In the after- was charred or singed or soaked. meaning, Change the subject.
noonhe drew new designsofhis idea. At lunch, breaking out of politics, “Pascal,” she said, turning to him.
Perhaps he was lonely. The doctor M. Turbin described the treatmentthe Atlast, she thought of something to
looking after his mother had asked tourist in Salonika had most probably say: “Do you remember Mlle. Tur-
him not to call or write, for the mo- received: it was the same the world bin? Charlotte Turbin?”
ment. over, and incurred the use of a long “Brigitte?” said Pascal.
needle. He held out his knife, to show “T’m sure you remember,” she said,
peer mother believed Dédé the approximate length. not listening at all. “In the travel
needed a woman friend, even “Stop!” cried Mme. Chevallier- agency, on Rue Caumartin?”
though he was not ready to get mar- Crochet. She put her napkin over her “She gave methe corrida poster,”
ried. Pascal heard her say, “Art and nose and mouth;all they could see was said Pascal, wondering how this had
science, architecture, culture.” These her wild eyes. Everyone stopped eat- slipped her mind.
were the factors that could change ing, forks suspended—all but the “We wentto see her, you andI, the
Dédé’s life, and to which he would magistrate, who was pushing aside time we wanted to go to Egypt? Now
find access through the right kind shreds of cabbageto get at the last of do you remember?”
of woman. Mme. Brouet had someone the partridge. “We never went to Egypt.”
in mind—Mlle. Turbin, who held a M. Chevallier-Crochet explained “No. Papa couldn’t get away just
position of some responsibility in a that his wife was afraid of needles. He then, so wefinally went back to Deau-
travel agency. She was often sent could not account for it; he had not ville, where Papa has so manycousins.
abroad to rescue visitors or check knownherasa child. It seemed to be a So you do remember Mile. Turbin,
their complaints. Today’s lunch had singular fear, one that set her apart. with the pretty auburn hair?”
been planned around her, but at the Meantime, his wife closed her eyes; “Chestnut,” said the two Turbins,
last minute she had been called to opened them, though not as wide as together.
Greece, wherea tourist, bitten by a dog, before; placed her napkin neatly across “My sister,” said Dédé, all of a
had received an emergency specific her lap; and swallowed a piece of sudden, indicating her with his left
for rabies, and believed the Greeks bread. hand, the right clutching a wineglass.
weretrying to kill him. M. Turbin said he was sorry. He “Before she got married, my mother
Herparents had come, nevertheless. had taken it for granted that any com- told me...” The story, whatever it
It was a privilege to meet the magis- patriot of the great Louis Pasteur must was, engulfed him in laughter. “A
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believe; that was because of his train-

ing. But then he said, “You began
your course about a month ago?”
“T had been thinking about it for a
long time,” said Dédé.
“And now they have awarded you a
degree. You are perfectly right—it’s
time you went home. Youcan take the
train tonight. I'll call your mother.”
Pascal’s mother returned, carrying a
large white coffeepot. “I wonder
whereyour first job will be,” she said.
Why were she and her brother so
remote from things as they are? Per-
haps because of their mother, the
grandmother in Colmar. Once, she
had taken Pascal by the chin andtried
to force him to look herin the eye. She
had done it to her children, Pascal
knows, now, that you cannot have
your chin held in a vise and undi-
videdly meet a blue stare. Somewhere
at the back of the mindis a secondself
with eyes tight shut. Dédé and his
sister could seem to meet any glance,
even the magistrate’s when he was
dog tried to bite her,” he managed to “You know, this morning—”said being most nearly wide awake. They
say. Dédé, getting on with something that seemed to be listening, but the person
“You can tell us about it another was on his mind. he thought he was talkingto, trying to
time,”said his sister. “Another time,” said his sister. reach the heart of, was deaf and blind.
He continued to laugh, softly, just “Never mind about this morning.It is Pascal’s motherlistens when she needs
to himself, while Abelarda changed all forgotten. Etienne is speaking, to know what might happen next.
the plates again. now.” All Pascal understood, for the mo-
The magistrate examined his clean ment, was that when Dédé had men-
new plate. No immediate surprises: Te morning! Theguests had no tioned taking a degree, he was saying
salad, another plate, cheese, a dessert idea, couldn’t begin to imagine something he merely wished were
plate. His wife had given up on Mlle. what had taken place, here, in the true.
Turbin. Really, it was his turn now, dining room, at this very table. Dédé “We'll probably never see you, once
her silence said. had announced, overjoyed, “I’ve got you start to work,” said Pascal’s
“I may have mentioned this be- my degree.” For Dédé was taking a mother, pouring Dédé’s coffee.
fore,” said the magistrate. “And I correspondence course that could not The magistrate looked as if such
would not wish to keep saying the lead to a degree of any kind. It must great good luck was notto be expected.
same things over and over. But I won- have beenjust his wayof trying to stop Abelarda, who had gone upstairs to
der if you agree that the pivot of studying so that he could go home. make the beds, screamed from the head
Frenchpolitics today is no longer in “Degree?” The magistrate folded of the staircase that Dédé’s room was
France.” yesterday’s Le Monde carefully before full of smoke.
“The Middle East,’”? said M. putting it down. “What do you mean,
Turbin, nodding his head. degree?” ae movedslowly around the
“Washington,” said M. Chevallier- Pascal’s mother got up to make table carrying a plumtart, purple
Crochet. “Washington calls Paris ev- fresh coffee. “I’m glad to hear it, and gold, caramelized all over its sur-
ery morning and says, Do this, Do Dédé,” she said. face, and a bowl of cream. Mme.
that.” “A degree in what?” said the mag- Turbin glanced at the tart and shook
“The Middle East and the Soviet istrate. her head no: M. Turbin was not al-
Union,”said M. Turbin. Dédé shrugged, as if no one had lowed sugar now, and she had got out
“There,” said M. Brouet. “We are bothered to tell him. “It camejust the of the habit of eating desserts. It
all in agreement.” other day,” he said. “I’ve got my de- seemed unfair to tempt him.
Manyof the magistrate’s relatives gree, and now I can go home.” It was true, her husband said. She
and friends thought he should be “Ts there something you could show had even given up making sweets, on
closer to government, to power. But us?” his account. He described her past
his wife wanted him to stay where he “There wasjust a letter, and I lost achievements—her famous chocolate
was and get his pension. After he re- it,” said Dédé. “A real diploma costs mousse with candied bitter orange
tired, when Pascal was grown, they two thousand francs. I don’t know peel, her celebrated pineapple flan.
would visit Tibet and the north of whereI’d find the money.” “My semolina crown mold with
China, and winter in Kashmir. The magistrate did not seem to dis- apricot sauce,” she said. “I must have
 magistrate drove him to
the Gare de l’Est.
£p£ camebackto Paris
about a year ago. He
is said to be different now.
He has a part-time job
with a television polling
service: every day he is
given a list of telephone
numbers in the Paris area
and he calls them to see
what people were watching
the night before and which
program they wish they
had watched instead. His
mother has bought him a
one-room place overlook-
ing Parc de Montsouris.
The Brouets have never
tried to get in touch with
him or invited him to a
meal. Dédé’s Paris—un-
known, foreign almost—
lies at an unmapped dis-
tance from Pascal’s house.
One night, not long
ago, when they all three
were havingdinner, Pascal
said, “What if Dédé just
came to the door?” He
meant the front door, of
course, but his parents
“I thought I loved it, but Gordon said we were just manipulated.” glanced at the glass doors
and the lamps reflected in
the dark panes, so that
night was screened from
given the recipe away a hundred She accepted large portions of tart and sight. Pascal imagined Dédé standing
times.” cream, to set an example, in case the outside, watching and smiling, with
Mme. Chevallier-Crochet wondered other two ladies had inhibited the that great mop ofhair.
if she could havea slice half the size men. Heis almost as tall as Dédé, now.
of the wedge Abelarda had already M. Turbin, after having made cer- Perhapshis father had notreally taken
prepared. Abelarda put down the bowl tain that no extra sugar had been notice of his height—it came about so
of cream and divided the wedge in stirred into the cream, took more gradually—but whenPascal got up to
half. The half piece was still too cream than tart. His wife, watching draw a curtain across the doors that
much; Abelarda said it could not be him closely, sipped water over her night at dinner, his father looked at
cut again without breaking into a mess empty plate. “It’s only fruit,” he said. him as if he were suddenly setting a
of crumbs. M. Chevallier-Crochetsaid ‘The magistrate helped himselfto all value on the kind of man he might
to his wife, “For God’s sake, just take the crumbs and fragments of burnt become. It was a steady look, neither
it and leave what you can’t eat.” sugar onthe dish. Herattled the spoon hot nor cold. For a moment Pascal
Mme. Chevallier-Crochet replied that in the bowl of cream, scraping the said to himself, He will never fall
everything she said and did seemed to sides; there was nearly noneleft. It asleep again. As for his mother,she sat
be wrong, she had better just sit here was the fault of M. Chevallier-Cro- smiling and dreaming,still hoping for
and say and do nothing. Abelarda, chet, who had gone on filling his some reason to start loving Dédé once
crooning encouragement,pushed onto plate, as though in a dream,until Abe- more. —Mavis GaLLant
her plate a fragment of pastry and one larda moved the bowl away.
plum. The guests finished drinking their
“Nocream,”she said,too late. coffee at half past four, and left at a
Mme. Brouetlooked at the portrait quarter to five. When they had gone, HOW’S THAT AGAIN? DEPARTMENT
of her husband’s grandfather, then at Mme. Brouet lay down—not on a [Bryan (Texas) Press]
her son, perhaps seeking a likeness. couch or a settee but onthe living- According to The History of Brazos
Sophie Chevallier-Crochet had seemed room floor. She stared at the ceiling County, Texas, by Elmer Grady Marshall,
lively andintelligent at their history- and told Pascal to leave her alone. this county was not a large slave-holding
county compared to those in other South-
of-art class. Mme. Brouet had never Abelarda, Dédé, and the magistrate ernstates. Of the 446 white people living
met the husband before, and was un- were up in Dédé’s room. Abelarda here in 1850, 148 were black, all of whom
likely ever to lay eyes on him again. helped him pack. Late that night, the were slaves.
 35
A REPORTER AT LARGE
HISTORY IN SHERMAN PARK—I

NEeveningin early September to find out things that a poll could not politics, and may take little or no in-
of 1984, I pulled up in front of reveal. Instead of finding outa little terest in an election or in the issues
the home of Gina and Wil- about a lot of votes, I wanted to find raised in it (in 1984, as it turned out,
liam Gapolinsky, in the Milwaukee out everything I could about a hand- nearly forty-seven per cent of the vot-
neighborhood known as Sherman ful of votes. After all, I thought, it ing-age population did not bother to
Park. (I have changed their names, was here—in the minds of individual vote); or they may be swayed or pres-
the names of someothers, and certain voters—that an election, in the last sured to vote one way or another by
details in this article to protect their analysis, took place. As in every cam- powerful forces in the society; or they
privacy.) I was there to talk with them paign,the full range of issues handled may beoffered such restricted choices
about the Presidential election, which by governmentwas being presented for in the first place that their true will
had got its start on Labor Day. In judgment and decision; among in- never has a chance to be expressed.
every election season, the candidates, numerable other issues were whether Yetthe fact remains that, however the
the candidates’ supporters, the re- we would go to war or remain at decision whom to votefor is arrived at,
porters, the commentators, and others peace, raise taxes or lower them, pro- it is the people in the voting booths
in and around the campaigns pour tect the natural environmentor despoil who decide which person takes office.
forth their messages—speeches, po- it, expand individual liberties or shrink At the very least, if the powerful
litical advertisements, press confer- them, undermineforeign governments forces wish to have their way they are
ences, leaks, articles, editorials—hop- or leave them alone, regulate industry forced to exert their influence through
ing to cast light (or to obfuscate), or unleashit, increase aid to the poor the minds of the citizens, and if the
to clarify (or to muddle), to inform, and disadvantaged orcut it back. And, citizens, for whatever reason, rebel,
to argue, to persuade, to charm, because the election was taking place their will prevails. So if in going to
to dazzle: to win. I wanted to go to in the nuclear age, also at issue was Sherman Park to talk with Gina and
some particular place in America the question of how the species could Bill Gapolinsky I was in one sense
where this bombardment wasarriving best assure its survival, and even seeking out people at the bottom of the
—where someindividual voters were whether it could survive atall; so the political hierarchy—people far from
making up their minds whom to vote continuation of human life, too, was the centers of influence and power, on
for as they went about the business of —fantastically—at issue in the elec- the receiving end of the government’s
their lives. And, having put myself tion. In otherpolitical systems, those decisions—I was in another sense
there, I wanted to look back at the issues are handed over to the few for seeking out the people who, under our
campaigns and their interpreters—and decision, or to just one person—to a system, are at the very pinnacle of
to reflect on what was going on. I revolutionary council, to a politburo, power. It was notthe President, or the
knew that on the basis of my talks to a President-for-life, to a sovereign, senators, or the representatives who
with these people I could not make to a king—but underoursystem it is would decide, ultimately, whether
political generalizations of the kind the citizens whodecide. Citizens,it is taxes would be raised or lowered,
that political polls allow, but I wanted true, have muchon their minds besides whether the poor would be helped or
 trol,” and that “Amer-
ica had reachedits lim-
its.” It was anything
but surprising, then,
Senator Paul Laxalt
said, that under Presi-
dent Carter the nation
had been “humbled at
home, humiliated
abroad.” And the Soviet
leaders, for their part,
United Nations Ambas-
sador Jeane Kirkpatrick
said, had “moved with
boldness andskill to ex-
ploit their new advan-
tages.” But then, the
preamble to the Repub-
lican platform said,
there had begun a “new
dawn of the American
spirit.” Under Ronald
Reagan, in just “four
short years” (Laxalt),
America had become
well. The economy
roared ahead, the Rus-
sians fell back, and
America, “respected”
once again, was restored
to its role as “a model
for other nations”
(Kemp).
In the weeks follow-
ing the Convention, the
Reagan campaign ran
a richly atmospheric se-
ries of television ad-
vertisements that were
muchadmired by people
in the business and
whosechief aim seemed
to be to create a climate
of national well-being
and happiness—even of
euphoria—and to link
“The gods have mixed feelings.” this with the Reagan
Administration. One ad
that was widely com-
mented upon announced,
abandoned, whether the world would and “pessimism” on the Democratic in a soothing deep male voice, “It’s
end or go on; it was Gina and Bill. side. The Democrats, he said upon morning again in America,” and con-
Whatever their level of interest, or arriving in Dallas, offered the coun- sisted almost entirely of pleasing
concern, or information, their deci- try “defeatism, decline, dependency, scenes of American life offered in
sions were the ones that stuck. They doom, anddespair.” Their very fear of succession—a tugboat moving up a
were the American sovereign. They these ills beginning with the letter river at dawn, a beautiful young cou-
were the Americanking. “d,” he seemed to be saying, would ple getting married, and more. Reagan
In the campaign so far, the polls bring the ills on. The Democrats, he also madea series of campaign appear-
declared, President Reagan had estab- said in his acceptance speech, were ances carefully designed to lend them-
lished a wide lead. At the Republican pessimists who undermined “the con- selves to the brief, impressionistic
National Convention, in late August, fidence and optimism about the fu- coverage characteristic of television.
he had framed theelection as a choice ture that has made us unique in the In one of these, the President attended
between not merely two programs for world.” They preached that “decline a birthday party for the celebrat-
governing America but two general was inevitable,” Representative Jack ed and loved country-and-Western
moods, or temperamental inclinations Kempsaid at the Convention, because star Roy Acuff at the Grand Ole
—optimism” on the Republican side there were forces “beyond our con- Opry, in Nashville, Tennessee, and,
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JANUARY5, 1987
against the backdrop of a gigantic
American flag, helped Acuff cut a
giantbirthday cake.
Againstthis skillful, unified presen-
tation of a happy, confident, optimis-
tic country being led by a strong lead-
er, the Democratic candidate, for-
mer Vice-President Walter Mondale,
i sought to pit a series of quite detailed
criticisms of specific policies of the
Reagan Administration. He often
pointed out that Reagan had failed to
conclude any agreements with the So-
viet Union on the control of nuclear
arms and that during his Presidency
the federal budget deficit had risen
from seventy-fourbillion dollars to a
hundred and eighty-five billion. He ac-
cused the Administration of neglecting
the environment, of trying to reverse
progress in the field of civil-rights
law and legislation, of condoning
human-rights abuses by right-wing
regimes abroad. In a controversial
recommendation at the Democratic
National Convention, in mid-July,
he also proposed that taxes be raised
to cut the budgetdeficit. So far, how-
cismstogether into anyover-all theme,
muchless created an infectious mood
of the kind that had been created by
the Reagan campaign. At the Conven-
tion, he advocated a “new realism” for
the Democratic Party, but the idea did
not catch on and was soon forgotten.
Hetried on occasion to boil down his
list of criticisms into something more
readily appealing, but managed only
to produce a shorter list: “a safer
America,” “fairness,” and “a more
competitive America.” In early Sep-
the central message of his campaign
as going to be “what kind of people
we are”—whetheridealistic or selfish,
compassionate or cruel—but no con-
certed or coordinated effort was made
to give that idea prominence. If Rea-
gan seemedto slight policy in favor of
mood, Mondale at times seemed to get
lost in the details of policy. Mondale’s
early campaign appearances were
marked by mistakes. His first official
day of campaigning, on Labor Day,
becamea cross-country demonstration
of error and mishap. In the morning,
in New York, he showed up for the
Labor Day parade before the parade
had attracted many spectators, and so
was forced to march along sparsely
lined streets in front of the television
cameras; at mid-day, he flew to Mer-
rill, Wisconsin, where his audience
was rained on before he spoke; and in
the evening he arrived so late for a
 THE NEW YORKER 39
rally at Long Beach, California, that strict grid pattern, run for miles in broad, strong mouth. Whenhesmiled,
the event could not be covered in the straight lines, and the house numbers his eyes lit up with a mischievous
evening news. The manner and mount quickly into the thousands as glint, and a broken front tooth gave
method of the two campaigns soon one drives north or west. Exceptin the him a roguish, piratical air. But when
became as much of an issue in the city’s downtown—about seven miles as the smile faded the glint was extin-
election as any of the supposedly sub- the crow flies from the Gapolinskys’ guished, and the pirate vanished, and
stantial issues mentioned in the candi- house—where glass-and-steel towers in his place stood a sober, opaque,
dates’ speeches. President Reagan’s have risen in and around a remark- impassive citizen. Bill showed me into
campaign waspraised for its business- ably handsome and well-preserved core the living room. A plaid-upholstered
like efficiency and its public-relations of nineteenth-century and early-twen- sofa under the picture window faced
creativity and skill but faulted for its tieth-century urban buildings, tall twostuffed chairs against the opposite
lack of concentration on issues, while buildings are rare in Milwaukee. The wall, and a nineteen-
inch television set
Mondale’s campaign was praised for city’s neighborhoods combine features stood against a side wall. Above
it
its concentration on issues but faulted of urban and suburban life. As in were two pictures—a glossy photo-
forits inefficiency andits ineptness. In many cities, the streets are laid out in graph of a mountain scene laminated
press commentary, it became some- numbered blocks intersected by named onto a thin-sliced cross-section of a
thing of a cliché to say that many avenues and a few throughways. Yet, Jog, and a glassed-in photograph of a
people who agreed with Mondale on as in the suburbs, commercial andresi- sunset over an ocean, in whose lower
most of the issues were going to vote dential areas have become separated as right-hand corner were the hands
of
for Reagan anyway. Commentators shopping malls have taken over from anoperating clock. A family ofbutter
had remarked that Reagan seemed to local stores, and workers have taken to flies in a pattern of rising flight was
be shielded by a coat of political travelling to their jobs by car. In gen- fixed to the wall over oneofthe chairs.
Teflon that mysteriously protected eral, people get from one place to an- Framed photographs of Gina and
him from having to pay any political other by automobile. No commercial Gapolinskys’ two children, Marjorie,
the
price with the public for errors of his establishment—neither office nor store four, and Linda, a year and a half,
Administration. Now it was begin- —was visible from the Gapolinskys’ hung nextto the picture window.
The
ning to look as if the Teflon protected house; they and their neighbors did sound of children’s voices and of water
him from rival candidates as well. A mostof their shopping in a mall about running floated down from
the second
destructive synergism seemed to be at a mile away. Except whenpeople were floor, where the family’s three bed-
work in the Mondale campaign. The leaving for work or returning home, rooms were. Bill said that
Republicans had portrayed him as the the streets were quiet and empty. getting the children ready forGina was
bed, and
candidate of “decline;” now the point When I pulled up in front of the thatall three would be down
soon. We
seemed to be illustrated daily by the Gapolinskys’ house, at about five sat down to wait, and I asked Bill to
waning popularity of his candidacy. o’clock, no person or moving car was tell me something about his work.
And while Mondale, seen as both the in sight, the living-room windows of ‘Two monthsearlier, he said, he had
apostle and the exemplar of defeat, most of the houses on the street were been promoted from salesman at the
sank in his vortex of failure Reagan lit, usually behind drawn shades, and Standard American Cookie Company
seemed to ascend ona spiral of success. in many windows the cool light of (as Pl calll it), which sells cookies and
television sets flickered. When I got other snack foodsall over the country,
ee Gapolinskys’ house occupied out of the car, the sky—its low, slow- to district manager for sales—an ad-
a small lot on a tree-lined street moving clouds underlit a dull orange vance in the corporate hierarchy that
on the north side of Milwaukee. It had —was a strong presence. formally elevated him from the ranks
two stories—the first of brick, the sec- Bill Gapolinsky greeted me at the of the workers to management, Tequir-
ond of aluminum siding, which over- door, in brown slacks and a T-shirt ingthat he resign from his union. He
hung the brick by a few inches,like a decorated with a picture of an over- had got the salesman’s job, he said,
hat pulled downover it. In frontof the flowingstein of beer and, below it, the only two and a half years before
that,
house was a small lawn,bisected by a word “Beer.”Bill, who was twenty- in February of 1982. With the change
narrow concrete walk, and in back six, was a tall, physically powerful in rank came a changein his working
were another lawn, a small garden, man who carried himself somewhat uniform: as a salesman, Bill could
and a garage, which was reached by rigidly, as if to hold his energy in leave his shirt collar open on the job
an alley that ran parallel to the street check. He had stiff brown hair, parted (companypolicy discouraged this, but
behind all the houses on the block. in the center, small brown eyes, a ski- few people paid any attention); now he
Facing the street were the front door jump nose, a brown mustache, and a was required to wear not only a shirt
and a picture window, and above each and tie but a sports jacket or a suit.
was a green aluminum awning, with a Bill and a brother of his were thefirst
white stripe on the fringe. A cedartree members of his family, he said, to rise
stood, sentrylike, next to the door, a to a managerial position. Bill and Gina
box-shaped shrub grew under thepic- were both graduates of the University
ture window, and a white lantern of Wisconsin; neither his nor Gina’s
stood on a man-high post that was parents or grandparents had gone to
planted next to the concrete walk. Up college. All four of Bill’s grandparents
and downthe street for as far as the had emigrated to the United States
eye could see were more such houses from Poland at the beginning of this
on small lots. Milwaukee is, by and century. All were Catholic, and so
large, a city of family-owned houses. weretheir children, and Bill himself.
Its streets, which are laid out in a ERNST All four of Gina’s grandparents had
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overawed. She sum-
moned a commanding
voice of her own for
these occasions, and
talked back. She was
also capable of mak-
ing a public scene, and
Bill knew this. On
their first date, at the
movies, they both re-
called with amuse-
ment,they had had an
argument about some
candy that Bill pro-
posed to buy for Gina.
He started to buy a
four-ounce package of
the candy from the
concession, for fifty
cents, but Gina no-
ticed that a one-ounce
package of the same
candy was available
for ten cents from a
vending machine, and
she insisted that Bill
exchange the two
quarters he hadforfive
dimes and getfive one-
“Invulnerable, if I may say so, sir”? ounce packages from
the machine, and he
° e did. Oh, boy, he had
thought at the time.
emigrated from Sicily, also around the came downstairs, wearing a flowered I’m arguing with this woman on our
beginning of the century, and they, nightgown. She had long dark-brown first date. This is probably the one I'll
too, had all been Catholic, as were hair, delicate features, and a tentative wind up marrying. Bill and Gina both
their children and Gina. Bill’s father, smile, were strong personalities, but neither
who died in November of 1976, “Hey, I missed you, sweetheart,” showedthe slightest sign of being in-
worked for thirty years as a shipping Bill said to Marjorie. “Do you love timidated by the other.
clerk on the night shift at the Pabst Daddy? Give Daddy a kiss.” After Gina hadputthe children to
Brewing Company. Because Bill had Marjorie hung back. bed, Bill, Gina, and I sat down to
risen into management, he was cov- “Mar-jo-rie. Give Dad-dy a kiss,” discuss the election. I asked Bill how
ered for thefirst time in his life by a Bill said again, with menacing empha- things looked to him atthis point.
dental plan that wouldpay to havehis sis on each syllable, but Marjorie did “Pm leaning to Reagan,” he told
front tooth capped, and he intended, not move. me. “I’m an optimistic American, and
he told me, to have this work done “She doesn’t have to kiss you if she I think America should be able to
soon. doesn’t wantto,” Ginainterjected. solve problems. I’m kind of like J. R.
‘There was a sound of laughter on “You don’t think so?” Bill an- Ewing, in ‘Dallas.’” He paused.
the stairs, and Gina appeared, smiling, swered, only half joking, and he made “Maybe I’m a kind of a jerk,” he
with Linda in her arms. Gina was an abrupt move toward Marjorie, who added diffidently.
started to flee upstairs. Bill followed,
short, full-figured, vivacious, and pret- Gina laughed. Her laugh was ex-
ty. She had dark-brown hair down to and shortly a happy shriek was heard plosive;it cameup from the depths and
her shoulders, large brown eyes, and from the top ofthestairs, followed by rocked her whole frame. “He thinks
soft, rounded features, and she was loud kissing sounds andgiggles. he’s Mr. Executive now,” she burst
wearing bluejeans and a lemon-colored “Whydo I spank you”Bill asked, out merrily. “He thinks that if he
jersey with a cowlcollar. Her smile was still outof sight at the top ofthestairs. votes for the Democrat he’ll be
broad and hergaze direct, and she con- “Because you love me,” Marjorie brought downto blue-collar level.”
veyed a feeling of warmth,forcefulness, answered. Bill sometimes spoke in a “Sure,” Bill answered, smiling, yet
and fun. She handed Linda over commanding, aggressive tone, but of- with a competitive glint in narrowed
to Bill. Linda, who was wearing red ten he would suddenly drop that tone eyes. “But I have to go out and deal
one-piece pajamas, had dark curly hair and become docile and reasonable. Bill with reality and provide for the family.
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Hekissed her noisily. be changed by them. But even when
Gina’s laugh erupted again. “Oh,
A few moments later, Marjorie Bill was commanding, Gina was not ho!” she exclaimed. “‘Just’? Did I
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hear ‘just’? I guess you think I’m sit- “T do like several things that he’s voice, as if embarrassed. “And I didn’t
ting around hereall day watching TV done,”? Bill answered. “One, he know whether I would even havea job
andtaking naps.” brought down inflation. Two, he or a family. But now I haveall of that.
“No, honey—honest, I don’t,” Bill brought downinterest rates from the I used to think maybe we all had a
said, his voice now soft. “I really twenty per cent where they were under twenty per cent chance of makingit.
think being a housewife is the hardest Carter. There’s no way we could have Now I thinkit’s more like eighty per
job there is. I know I couldn’t do it. boughtthis house with interest rates at cent. But I recently met a Jehovah’s
‘No way.”Bill spoke with evident con- twenty per cent.” Bill and Gina Witness who said it looks like the
viction. A sort of harsh kidding was bought their house in January of world could end any day now. It’s still
oneofBill’s styles with his friends and 1984, for forty-nine thousand dollars. as if there’s too much chancefor some-
relatives, and sometimes he carried it They paid only two hundred dollars thing to go wrong. People talk about
to the edge of insult. For instance, he downand got a mortgagefortherest, putting money awayforthe future, but
might repeatedly say to a guest, “Are at twelve and a half per cent, obligat- —hey—I don’t. I would Jove to be
youstill here? I thought you’d gone.” ing them to monthly payments of six here when I’m sixty-five or eighty-
But before offense was given he would hundred and fifty-six dollars. five, or a hundred, and with Gina,too,
dissolve the joke in affection and hos- “What he says goes,” Gina ob- and have Marjorie be a grandmother.
pitality. He’ enjoyed similar kidding served. “Mondaleis kind of lukewarm But I’m not going to put a lot of
from others, and never tookoffense. He —like he was moreof a team player.” money away which would prevent me
carried no chip on his shoulder, and in “In the sixties and the seventies, it from enjoying something right now,
his aggressive banter nothing serious seemed like nothing the country just so I could enjoy something when
seemed threatened against others or to wantedto do ever got done,” Bill went Tm sixty-five. ’m not totally con-
be at stake for him. Since his promotion on. “We wanted inflation to go down, vinced I’m going to be here when I’m
at Standard American, I learnedlater, but it didn’t. We wanted American sixty-five.”
Bill had been working as muchas ten imperialism to stop, but it still went “In coming to feel somewhat more
or twelve hours a day. But whenhe was on. What with the Vietnam War, and optimistic, do you think that the world
home he shared the household tasks non-trust in the government, and has changed or that your views have
with Gina—washing dishes and burningtheflag, there wasa feeling of changed?”I asked.
clothes, changing diapers, putting the ‘Whyvote? It doesn’t matter. Every- “My views have changed based on
children to bed. Neither Bill nor Gina, body’s crooked.’ But now it seems that the world changing,” he said. “Rea-
they said, wantedthe kind of marriage, people think that the government can gan puthis foot down andsaid, ‘This
common in their parents’ generation do some good things. Reagan had a is what we’re goingto do, andthis is
but much rarer today, in which the majority in only one house of Con- what we’re not goingto do.’ I remem-
husband came home from work, sat gress, but he talked to the people he ber once, when I was a junior in col-
downin his favorite armchair, turned had to talk to, and got his program lege and Carter was President, I went
on the TV, and was served a cup of through. Carter had Democratic ma- with my cousin Karen to hear this
coffee or a beer by his wife. Bill admit- jorities in both houses and couldn’t do Indian folk singer, who talked about
ted that the idea of being served that zilch. MaybeI feel like I do because of how we're ‘wasting the good of the
way sometimes appealed to him,but he the other Presidents I’ve known. land’ and how there’s no way we’re
said he had decided that the sort of Whatdid Nixon do? He made friends going to ‘see twenty more winters.’
woman who would offerto do it would with China. Ford didn’t have time. AndI really believed that. I remember
not be interesting to him. He wanted Carter was a washout. So when see asking Karen, ‘Do you think we’re
someone more “challenging,” he said, someone accomplish anything I’m im- going to be around in twentyyears?”
and in Gina he had found her. Gina pressed. I’m feeling better about the Andshesaid, ‘Oh, hell, yeah.’ And I
now did part-time free-lance work whole country. You know,aroundthe said, ‘God, I’m reallylooking forward
as an interviewer for market-research timeof the last election I was wonder- to having kids, andraising them, and
projects, and she and Bill took it for ing whether we wouldall be here four waiting for them to have kids. I want
granted that when both children were years from now.” them to go through everything ’m
in school she would get a regular job. “What made you wonderthat?” I going through, and I want them to
I asked Gina whom shepreferred in asked. enjoy it. But I have the feeling they
the election. “Well, you know, the hydrogen aren’t goingto be around.’ ”
“Definitely Mondale,” she said. “I bombandall,” Bill answered, in a low “Do you remember what made you
guess I’m just a social-welfare-type feel this way?” I asked.
person.” “Well, it seemed there wasn’t going
“Anyway,”Bill said, resuming his to be enough oil, the way we were
train of thought about the election, using it,” Bill said. “And in London,
“Reagan’s selling himself, and I think I read, people were dying of pollution.
it’s working. Hereally knows how to And in Los Angeles the pollution was
get things across to people. He getting worse and worse, too. Andall
presents himself well. Even when he the nuclear crap was going on. It
doesn’t say something, you know what seemed like the whole world wasclos-
he’s thinking. I think he’s really a ing in on us. Also, it seemed like the
strong leader.” environmentalists and the draft-card
“You say he sells himself well to burners were taking over. And espe-
people,” I said. “But does hesell him- cially the anti-Vietnam, anti-defense
self well to you? And do you like what protesters. If we cut and cut and cut
it is that heis selling?” defense spending, I thought, then
48 JANUARY5, 1987
pretty soon we aren’t going to have runs this country. God, I’m convinced. think you just want to maintain the
any weapons. Once westop building of that. If there was no monetary in- status quo by keeping the Republicans
weapons—once sixty to eighty per fluence or business influence, I’d defi- in there—because you’re little self-
cent of the people believe that you nitely vote for Mondale. It’s too bad, ish,a little afraid you may get hurt.”
don’t need weapons, when we re- because I agree with him. But I just She added wistfully, “Bill, you’ve be-
duce to that point—then what do you don’t think he can do what he wants to come so business-minded.”
think is going to happen? The Rus- do. He can’t doit.” “Maybe,”Bill answered, entertain-
sians are going to jump on us, that’s “Why can Reagan get things ing the thought. “You know,” he
what.” done?” continued, “at one of the Catholic
I asked Bill what he thought about “He’s more of a realist. He’s a Re- high schools that I sell cookies to I
Mondale. publican, a businessman—he believes saw sign thatsaid, ‘Even if you come
“J don’t exactly disagree with him,” in business.” Bill thought for a few in first, act as if you camein last.’ 1
Bill said. “In fact, if he could do moments. “So do I,” he went on. think that’s un-American. If you
everything that he says he would do “Partly because business makes think in an uncompetitive way, you’re
I'd vote for him right away. But I just America work and partly because you not going to succeed in America.” He
don’t think he can. Take his idea of can’t get away from its influence. You stopped. Then, as if remembering
raising taxes, for instance.” Bill was can’t beat big business. You can’t beat something,he said, in a quieter voice,
referring to Mondale’s promise to big money. I’m a conservative.” “You know, I really believe in paci-
raise taxes to help reduce the budget “Bill, I think you’re beginning to fism, though.I really do. I was always
deficit. “I think it’s a good idea. He sound a little pessimistic,” Gina re- good at sports—baseball, football, ev-
wants the rich people to pay more. marked. “I thought you were supposed erything. But if people were hitting
But they won’t. They never have, and to be this optimistic American.” each other or hurting each other I
they never will. Mondale is just not “T am optimistic,” Bill said. just never wanted to have anything
going to be able to do it. There’s no “You don’t like the idea of being to do with it. To me, it was just a
way.” pegged as pessimistic, but lots of your game. It could be done in a fair way.
“Whynot?”I asked. ideas are pessimistic,” Gina said. I like to think that there are few peo-
“It’s just never been done,” Bill “You know, this thing like ‘Sure, ple fairer and more honest than me.”
answered with finality. “A lot of poli- Mondale’s plan sounds good, butit “That’s true!” Gina exclaimed im-
ticians are in office because the rich can never be done, because of the way mediately, brought forward in her
people put them there. Thepoliticians
the world is, so it just won’t be put chair with the force of the realization.
owe them too many favors to make into effect, because you just can’t do “Heis fair. He reallyis.”
them pay higher taxes. Money just it’ And withouteven givingit a try. I “Now, at my salesman job we were

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 THE NEW YORKER 49
authorized to give a ten-per-cent re- “So what is the ultimate thing, didn’t want as your representative in
duction on cookies to schools, to bring Gina?” this harsh realm someone who i
in business. But some guys cheated “Isn’tit to break the rule? Isn’t that dulged himself in inappropriate, pri-
and found a way of giving twenty it? Isn’t that what Standard American vate virtues—virtues whose only effect
per cent without the main office really wants?” was to put him and you at a competi-
finding out. That way, their records “Yeah, sure it is,” Bill answered. tive disadvantage. And yet when Bill
and commissions improved. But I just “But Pm not Standard American. ’m contemplated moving up into that
wouldn’t do it. No way. Maybe Bill Gapolinsky.” harsh realm himself, as a businessman,
my boss even wanted me to. He’s part of him held back—nothing less
a very straight guy, but maybe, al- HE commentators were talking than the part he proudlycalled Bill
though he wouldn’t say ‘Doit,’ he about nuclear-arms control, the Gapolinsky. To be “conservative”did
wanted me to do it anyway. But I budget deficit, and other issues of the not mean that he thought it was a
wouldn’t. One of my colleagues says, day, and Bill and Gina were con- goodidea that big moneyruled society;
‘That’s what’s fun about business cerned with these things, too, but as I it meant that he believed this to be the
—breakingtherules.’ But that’s what talked to them it seemed to me that case, and thought that there was noth-
I hate about business—whenit gets what divided them politically as much ing to be done about it. Gina agreed
dishonest.” as anything was the question of how that big money ruled society, but she
“In your experience, are most peo- bad the world was—how unreform- hoped thatthis state of affairs could be
ple you deal with honest?”I asked. ably, irredeemably bad. For Bill, the changed, and wanted to put up a fight
“Everyone wants a break for him- world—meaning, roughly, the upper againstit. She believed that acceptance
self,” Bill said. “That’s America. reaches of power and money, where ofthe rule of big money was not wis-
That’s capitalism. That’s competition. the politicians made their decisions dom or realism but apathy, or even
I think that one of the Catholic high and the businessmen made their deals selfishness. Bill saw the world asinits
schools I was selling cookies to took —was a place where corruption was nature quite bad; Gina saw it as im-
the account away from me andgaveit endemic, or, at any rate, more wide- provable, Neither of thepolitical par-
to another guy because heoffered the spread than it was in the private ties was taking a position on how in-
twenty-per-cent discount.” spheres of most people’s lives. But trinsically good or bad the world was,
As Gina heard this, a troubled look because the corruption was inex- but Bill’s dark, fatalistic view of the
came over her face. “But Bill,” she pungeably ingrained in the world it world somehow was inclining him
asked, “isn’t that the time to break the in a way lost the character of corrup- toward the “confident,” “optimistic”
rule? I mean,isn’t that what you have tion and became necessary, and there- Republicans and Gina’s comparative-
to do, ultimately?” fore even desirable. Certainly you ly brighter view was inclining her

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50 JANUARY5, 1987
toward the “defeatist, ” “pessimistic” wooing her away from another man, in the church. The BoyScouts and the
Democrats. to whomshehadbeen unofficially en- Girl Scouts flourished. There were
gaged, and they were married in July spaghetti dinners and Fridayfish fries
A MAPrepresenting the world of of 1946. In the next dozen years, they (a Milwaukeetradition), organized by
Bill and Gina Gapolinsky would had four children: Paula, in 1949; the church. For church festivals,
haveonit very few places outside Mil- Fred, in 1952; Katharine (Kate), in ‘Thomas made prizes in a woodwork-
waukee. Two key points on the map 1955; and Bill, in 1958. All over the ing shop in his basement. He became
would be the homes of Bill’s mother, United States, men back from the war an usherat the church. The neighbors
Barbara Gapolinsky, and Gina’s were marrying, buying houses, often became friends, and took turns hold-
mother, Martha Bellacchio, both of with the help of loans under the G.I. ing cookouts at their houses. The
whomlived alone, in retirement. Mrs. Bill of Rights, and having families. Gapolinsky family became engrossed
Gapolinsky lived a few miles to the The Gapolinskys bought an unfin- in sports. Tickets for Green Bay
north of Bill and Gina’s house, in the ished house in an unfinished develop- Packers games went onsale in late
house in which Bill grew up, and Mrs. ment on Thirtieth Street, for ten summer and the children and their
Bellacchio lived a few miles to the east thousand nine hundred dollars, of father took turns camping outin line
of their house, in a rented apartment. which theypaid three thousand dollars for as long as five nights to get seats.
Mrs. Gapolinsky, who was the sixth down. (Thomas was eligible to take Paula began to play golf, and shestill
of nine children, was born in the out a loan under the G.I. Bill but played in 1984, and liked to watch
suburb of South Milwaukee, where decided instead to obtain one from a golf tournaments ontelevision—espe-
her father ran a hardwarestore. Bill’s bank that offered nearly the same in- cially the Hawaiian Open. In the
father, Thomas Gapolinsky, died of a terest rate.) While the house was un- memories of all the Gapolinskys, their
heart attack when Bill was eighteen, der construction, they would stop by life as a family in their old neighbor-
and Gina’s father, Richard Bellacchio, every Sunday to see how it was com-
hood was a golden time. Those memo-
deserted the family in 1961, when ing. All around them were the sights ries, which have already developed the
Gina was eighteen months. His pres- and sounds of building, and of other aura of family legend, are inseparable
ent home, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, people moving into the development,
from their memories of Thomas
would be a dim point on Gina’s map. most of whom were young couples, Gapolinsky, whom they remembered
He had returned a few times to like them. Many of the husbands were as intelligent, self-sacrificing, kindly,
Milwaukee—unexpectedly, as often as veterans of the war, and Thomas dis- and loving, and held in reverence.
not—tosee the children. Gina had not covered that a friend of his from the Bill’s earliest memory is of being
enjoyed those occasions. She resented Army had bought a house on the same dressed up like a girl by his older
whatshe felt was an assumption onhis block. Soon the new neighbors were sisters. When I spoke to his sisters
part that he should be treated as their helping one another. As it happened, recently, they recalled dressing him in
father. She had no interest in further the builder of the Gapolinskys’ house dolls’ clothes, draping pigtails over his
relations with him. Mrs. Bellacchio head, walking him up and down the
died just before it was finished, so
was thefifth of twelve children born to street, and calling him Jill. They also
‘Thomas,his brothers, his brothers-in-
Pietro and Anna Giardini, in Spring- law, and several neighbors completed liked to play hospital, with him as
field, Iinois. Pietro had held many it themselves—framing and hanging their patient. Bill now saw himself as
jobs—railway worker, coal miner, doors, and doing other work. For a self-confident person, andattributed
and, briefly, bootlegger. Anna had Thomas, the task marked the begin- this in part to being the “pampered
raised the children and taken care of ning of what becamea lifelong hobby baby” of the family. His sisters re-
the house, which had twostories and of woodworking, at which he became membered him as energetic, intelli-
six rooms. Her grandchildren, who expert. The Gapolinskys were quickly gent, and outgoing, but they also re-
spent happyvacationsthere, recalled a caughtupin thelife of a thriving and membered careless streak. In the year
womanperpetually covered with flour growing neighborhood, which sud- after he got his driver’s license, he
standing behind a stove handing out denly sprang into existence around had three car accidents. The entire
individual meatballs on forks to them. Many of those moving in were Gapolinsky family—with the possible
swarms of children; they remembered Catholic, and a new Catholic church exception of Fred—lovedto talk. Mrs.
her as “a saint.” Barbara Gapolinsky was built nearby, and a new parish Gapolinsky, in particular, was re-
and Martha Bellacchio had abundant established. Dozensof family activities nownedin the family andoutsideit for
time to keep a vigilant,critical, affec- were organized, by the church and her talkativeness. At the time I met
tionate eye on their children and other groups. A parochial school was Kate, she spoke at approximately twice
grandchildren, and the views they ex- founded. The neighborhood children the speed of most people, and Paula,
pressed over the phone andin person, cameto be so numerousthat the paro- too, poured out her words at a rapid
censorious or otherwise, were the sub- chial school before long had to impro- clip, though in a quieter and less as-
ject of many hoursoflively conversa- vise new classrooms behind the chapel sertive way than Kate. In family lore,
tion among their children. Paula was the well-behaved, “good”
The neighborhood in which Bill sister, and Kate the rebellious, “bad”
had grown up, and in which Mrs. one. Paula did as she was told; Kate
Gapolinsky still lived, had changed argued or, more often, procrastinated.
since the family had moved there, in In the room they shared on the second
1951. During the war, Barbara’s hus- story of the house, Paula’s half was
band-to-be, Thomas, had served in the always tidy, Kate’s a mess. Kate’s
Army, as a medic in Australia and fighting with her mother continued up
New Guinea. After he returned, in to the moment of her marriage, for
1945, he courted Barbara for a year, which Mrs, Gapolinsky demanded
THE NEW YORKER 51
that Kate wear a girdle. Kate refused,
and wore no girdle. Paula becameex-
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Kate mastered none of these skills.
Paula received the highest Girl Scout
award available, called the Marian
Award. Kate summedup thesituation
for me by saying, “She’s perfect, but
Tm nice.” The sisters are now good
friends. In spite of Kate’s rebellious-
ness, and in spite of a policy of Barbara
and Thomas’s of treating all their
children equally, the family were
agreed that Kate had been Thomas’s
favorite. He had loved to read history
books—especially those having to do
with the Second World War—and
Kate cameto sharehis passion. Often,
she would ask him about historical
subjects, and he wouldtell her what he
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themselves under the table. Fred usu-
ally voted Republican, but he had
voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976. This
year, he favored Reagan. Bill attrib-
uted some of his ownconservatism to
the influence of Fred during his years
of military service. While Bill was in
college, Fred had suggested that Bill
might enter the officer-training pro-
gram, and then serve after graduation,
but Gina, whohaslittle taste for the
military life, strenuously and success-
fully opposed this. Kate had been the
last to leave the house. In 1977, she
had got a job sorting mail at the
Milwaukee main post office, and in
September of 1977 she had married
a chemical-company employee named
Pete Lueders, who subsequently got a
job at the post office. Now she wassix
months pregnant. She and Pete had
decided that when the baby was born
he would quit his job and stay home to
take care of the baby and the house,
while Kate continued working for the
post office. Kate liked the work there
but disliked housework; for Pete, it
wasthe other way around.
The prospect that Kate would work
while Pete stayed at home taking care
of the baby upset Mrs. Gapolinsky; in
this and in other matters, she preferred
conventional arrangements. Kate and
Pete, however, felt that she was some-
times too muchinterested in appear-
ances—in what the neighbors would
say. But Pete pointed out to me that
those neighbors could know of his and
Kate’s unorthodox decision only be-
cause Mrs. Gapolinsky, indulging her
love of talking, had told them in the
first place. Both Kate and Pete were
strongly committed Democrats, for
whom a vote for Mondale wasall but
a foregone conclusion. Paula’s hus-
band, Richard Mueller, had been mar-
ried before, and had two children, who
lived with their mother. He was not a
Catholic, and Paula’s choice of him
had been a further jolt to Mrs.
Gapolinsky’s conventional hopes for
her children’slives. Still another shock
came along soon: the discovery that
Bill had started to smoke marijuana in
college. “My sophomore year was
pretty much obliterated,” Bill told me.
Later, he quit. Both sisters had de-
fended their unconventional decisions
to their mother by pointing out to her
that unconventional things were now
going onall aroundher, including in
her own neighborhood. They pointed
out that not far from Mrs. Gapolin-
sky’s house a forty-year-old woman
was living with her twenty-five-year-
old lover, and that the couple living
THE NEW YORKER 53)
right next door to her were not mar- to them. They used post-office boxes as little interest in politics, yet when I
ried, either. Mrs. Gapolinsky had dis- addresses, and he did not know exactly inquired whather views wereit turned
approved of this arrangement, but had where they lived. (He and Paula have out that she was a convinced Demo-
softened toward the couple after the not had children.) His motherlived in crat, and had never voted for a Repub-
man began doing odd jobs for her Milwaukee, but in the eight years lican.
around the house. In several houses, since he had married Paula they saw Gina and Bill regarded Kate and
the daughters observed,elderly couples her infrequently. “She’s very busy,” Pete as the intellectuals of the family.
had been obliged to welcome their Paula explained. “Sheplays bingo two “Kate is very cultural,” Bill told me,
grown children back after the children nights a week, and sometimes more and Gina said, “She and Pete read
had been through divorces. And one of often.” There werefive brothers in the English literature and history and lis-
Mrs. Gapolinsky’s own sisters was family, and theyall lived in Milwau- ten to classical music, and everything
considering divorce, after thirty-five kee, but the last time they hadall got like that.” However, Bill feared that
years of marriage. Sometimes the together was when their father died, Kate was becoming “too blue-collar”
daughters liked to try to ruffle their twenty years earlier. “They’re all —that she was being too muchinflu-
mother’s composure by telling risqué loners,” Paula commented. When enced by the union she belonged to at
stories. Paula—“perfect” Paula— Richard attended the Gapolinsky fam- the post office. He worried that she
once said to me, “I go over there and ily get-togethers, he was likely at some was “lowering herself by letting the
just start talking about sex. And Mais point to turn on a football game or sort of thing that unions complain
like ‘Oh, geez!’ So, big deal, I think.” some other program on television about get to her.” One example of a
Once, she and Richard told her rather than stay in the conversation. union complaint, he said, might be a
mother about a time when they had His and Paula’s life together had been demand that the mail sorters be per-
had sex on a golf course. “We laughed marked by frequent changes. After mitted to sit in some particular way—
so hard,” Paula told me. “She was so leaving the military, he worked for back, rather than forward, for instance
three years as a food-service supervisor —as they punched the keys on their
shocked.” It remains an open question,
though, just how shocked their motherin a nursing homeand then for eight mail-sorting machines. “Kate and
really was. Once, when Kate was dat- years as a telephone repairman; then, Pete don’t get enough intellectual
ing Pete, her mother went away for knowing that he was going to belaid stimulation at work,” Gina said. “It’s
the weekend, leaving Kate in the off, he took a job as a manager-trainee almostlike they’re so lofty they can’t
house alone. “Oh, boy, Pete can spend at a pizza chain. He and Paula had apply their intellectualness. Butif they
the night,” Kate said to herself. “In moved four times, twice because they get to a party, boy, can they show their
those days, that’s all you thought had trouble with their mortgage pay- stuff to advantage. Wow! They are
about,” Kate told me. “At any rate, ments. Nevertheless, they took annual really smart.”
it’s all I thought about.” Her mother, vacations. His favorite vacation spot ‘The old neighborhood hada friend-
however, forbade Kate to let Pete was Las Vegas, where he gambled, liness, a liveliness, and a cohesiveness
spend the night. He did anyway. and they had been there six or seven that some of the Gapolinsky children
Later, Kate heard something from a times since their marriage. “It’s great found lacking in their new ones. Kate
neighbor that surprised her greatly.
for me,” Paula explained to me. “I can and Pete were not well acquainted
Before her mother went awayfor the lie around the pool at the hotel all day with even their immediate neighbors.
weekend, she had told the neighbor doing nothing or I can shop. I have Neither were Paula and Richard.
that because Kate wasafraid to stay in morefriends in the Las Vegas Fashion During the day, many houses stood
the house alone Pete would be spend- Show Mall than almost anywhereelse. silent and empty. When Paula re-
ing the night. “So while she was tell-
The people in the stores remember me flected on the differences between the
ing me notto let Pete stay over she from year to year.” Whatever the state old neighborhood and her new one,
was making excuses for me to the of Richard’s relations with her family, she was filled with melancholy.
neighbors,” Kate pointed out. “I was Paula was completely absorbed in him “Nothing remainsthe same,”shesaid.
floored,” she said, adding, “I thinkit’s and devoted to him. During the day, “People are realizing now that those
kind of neat.” And when talked to when both of them were at work, she were the best of times. They’ll never
Mrs. Gapolinsky about some of the often missed him. A year before, when comeback.”
surprises that her children had pro- he was managingthepizza parlor, she A few miles to the east of Bill and
vided for her she said, “You know, hadtravelled at lunchtimeto the place Gina’s house was the three-story
much as I wantthe children to do the where he worked, secretly positioned house in which Gina wasbrought up.
right thing, I’ve learned overthe years herself across the street with a pair of It had belonged to one of Martha
that if I try to correct them too much binoculars, and watched him make Bellacchio’s father’s relatives, who
I'll become cut off from them. Then pizzas. WhenI asked her whyshe had had become prosperous making cus-
they won’t even tell me whatis hap- done this, she said she just liked the tom-made boots—a craft he had
pening to them. So sometimes I hold sight of her husband throwing the learned as a boy from his father, in
my peace. The most important thing round pizza dough in the air and Sicily. He and his wife, who were
in life, I think, is family, and I want catching it on his fist. Paula professed

ALL.
childless, had taken a liking to
to keep mine together.” Martha,and after she married Rich-
For Paula, the closeness and ard Bellacchio, in 1937, they invited
warmth of the Gapolinsky family were the couple to live with them, in an
thrown into relief by her husband’s apartment in their house. In the next
family, the Muellers, whorarely vis- eight years, Martha and Richard had
ited one another. Richard was es- three children: Louise, in 1939; Art,
tranged from his first wife and his two in 1942; and Harry, in 1945. Richard
children. He rarely saw them ortalked movedfrom job to job. For a while, he
o: JANUARY5,1987
workedin a factory that made parking Ginahad asked why, she hadsaid that taught. “They were just dirtballs,”
meters. Then he worked as a shoe the Democrats were for ordinary peo- according to Gina. Since success in
salesman. Later, he becamea part-time ple like herself. And Bill remembered school was one of the paths to eco-
bartender. In 1959, Gina was born, his father’s saying, “The Republicans nomic advancement, their rejection of
and a year and a half afterward he are for the rich, like the people who it tended to insure that they would
left the family. “He married a whole live on the East and West Coast, and remain in the economic class into
string of women from here to Louisi- the Democrats are for everyoneelse.” which they were born. (In Milwaukee
ana,” Gina told me. During thefirst Both Gina and Bill recalled that as a whole, I noticed, as in other parts
half of the century, the house was one amongtheir parents’ friends—most of of the nation, long hair, which was
of the most luxurious and well-to-do them working-class people—support once associated with college students,
in Milwaukee, but by the time Gina for the Democrats, though not often had slipped down a notch in the eco-
was growing up there, it was in the mentioned, tended to be taken for nomic scale, and was now to be seen
middle of the city’s expanding black crated: Bill entered St. Paul’s in almost exclusively among blue-collar
ghetto. 972, two years before President Nix- workers—gas-station attendants, con-
Gina, born fourteen years after her on resigned from office, and three struction workers, repairmen, and so
brother Harry, had not shared a child- years before the end of the Vietnam on. I remembered that some of the
hood with her brothers and hersister, ‘War, and Gina was a year behind strongest resistance to the youth
and she saw them less often than Bill him. The wave of youthful rebellion movement of the sixties had come
saw his brother and sisters, but when that so noisily and visibly raced from blue-collar parents, and I won-
they did get together—onholidays, or through American cultural andpoliti- dered whether they might not have
sometimes just for dinner—the atmo- cal life in the nineteen-sixties did not feared—correctly, as it turned out
sphere was close and affectionate. hit St. Paul’s directly, but long after —that a style of life that was a pass-
Louise had contracted multiple sclero- the restless news media had moved on ing fad for privileged college stu-
sis, and was confined to a wheelchair, to other preoccupations the social and dents might prove more lasting for
in an apartmentacross thestreet from cultural residues of the rebellion sifted their sons and daughters.) Two other
her mother’s. Harry had married, had down into the high school. However, cliques at St. Paul’s were “the jocks”
three sons, divorced, and remarried; he by that time—the early- and mid- and the “smart,” academically capable
worked as a painter at Evinrude Mo- nineteen-seventies—the stereotypes students, and it was usually they, Gina
tors. Art was married and had two that had been so vivid in the media had found, who moved upward eco-
sons, of whom one was about to go (hippie, yippie, dropout, square, and so nomically, into white-collar or profes-
into the Air Force, and the other had on) had blurred or assumed new mean- sional jobs. Bill, whom Gina referred
just graduated from the University of ings. For example, one of the cliques to as having been “Mr.Collegiate” at
Wisconsin; Art was the general man- in Gina’s class at St. Paul’s was “the St. Paul’s, was in the jock clique, and
ager for a Datsun dealer. In the ab- freaks,” but its members were neither Ginadrifted between cliques.
sence of their father, Gina said, Art hippie dropouts from middle-class so- Generally speaking, by the time the
had becomethe patriarch of the fam- ciety nor the “effete corps of impudent influence of the youth movement made
ily. Bill and Gina visited especially snobs”—an educated élite in rebellion itself felt at St. Paul’sits political con-
often with Art, who loved to cook, and against the society that had extended tent had been left behind, and onlyits
lived in a house in an expensive new them its privileges—whose political social and cultural content—the rock
development a few miles north of the protest had so agitated Vice-President music, the drugs, and a general loos-
city limits. Bill described him as “a Spiro Agnew in the late sixties and ening of sexual and other restrictions
big-shot car dealer” who was friends had caused President Nixon to invoke —remained. A survey madeby a St.
with “somepretty rich people.” a loyal “silent majority” of conven- Paul’s student paper in 1976 found
Next to their own neighborhood, tional people in supportof his policies. that half of those responding had ex-
their childhood neighborhoods, and ‘They were,in fact, sons and daughters perimented with drugs. Bill’s sister
the homesof their relatives, probably of factory workers, and, Ginatold me, Kate remembered that when she
the most important place on any map turned out in most cases to have been learned that someone who smoked as
of Gina and Bill’s existence would be headed for factory jobs themselves. much marijuana as Bill did in hisfirst
St. Paul’s High School, which they Neither academically successful nor years at college was becomingpoliti-
had both attended. It was at St. Paul’s, politically aware, on the whole, they cally conservative she had atfirst been
a parochial school, that political adopted only the style of the “freaks” surprised. “You know, I thought,
awareness dawned,if dimly. Gina did of media fame—wearing their hair Dopehead:liberal,” she told me. “But
not recall that her family took any long, sometimes with headbands, that wasn’t the case anymoreat all.”
interest in politics whatever. “They smoking a lot of marijuana, listening Now shebelieved that drug use was
were more interested in the fun to a lot of rock music (especially heavy not a good indicator of political opin-
side of life,” she remembered. Bill re- metal), and adopting a contemptuous ion. Sexual prohibitions seemed to re-
called that his father was an unshak- attitude toward school and what it lax at St. Paul’s in the early seventies,
able Democrat, but said that politics but by the time Gina graduated a
were rarely discussed at their house, reaction had set in. In a class above
either. When Gina once asked her hers, she recalled, some of the students
mother how she was voting, her had goneto onegirl’s basementto play
mother answered, secretively, “I can’t a game called Seven Minutes in
tell you.” But on another occasion, Heaven,in which a couple were shut
when Gina asked her mother “what into a darkened room for seven min-
she was”politically, she had answered, utes, with the idea that they could do
“A Democrat, of course,” and when whatever they liked with each other
THE NEW YORKER 55
sexually while the others waited out- now deduced that the political senti-
side. In Gina’s class, such wildness ment of the class had been tepid,
had halted, and the girls adopted a taken-for-granted support of Carter,if
virginal, almost babyish style of be- only because he was the Democrat.
havior, which Gina described to me as “Bruce thought Ford was the next
“cutesy,” and “goody two shoes.” For George Washington,”Bill recalled.
Maupintour
example, they would bring one an- “He hada locker full of Republican Discover a grand style of escorted
other lollipops with ribbons tied campaign literature, and we thought travel. Small groups, professional
around the sticks, and send one an- he was weird,” Ginasaid. manager, one price covers every-
other sentimental greeting cards or The Watergate crisis ended with thing. Treat yourself to the best!
notes. Billstill had a letter written to the resignation of President Nixon in
him in the cutesy style by a girlfriend the summer of 1974, when Bill was
in his senior year. It read: aboutto enter his junior year and Gina
her sophomoreyear, and the Vietnam
US
Dear my you
My you's very special, cuz no one’s Warended with the fall of Saigon in 8to32days.
specialer as a you, than you. You i are us April of 1975, but neither event made Middle Europe,
noone else could ever makeup an us, ‘cept a large impression on either of them. British Isles,
“us” i do love you forever WhenI asked Gina whether she had
patti LondonTheatre,
taken an interest in the Watergate Scandinavia,
“TI guess we wanted to hold onto our affair, she answered, “I have no mem- Greece, Spain,
childhoods a little longer—to be im- ory of it. There were so many names. Portugal, Morocco,
mature and innocent,” Gina ex- Mybody was changing rapidly. I was Soviet Union. i
plained. “Ourattitude supposedly was interested in interpersonal things. I
‘Necking in the back of a car—oh, was more concerned with whether I
ugh, how horrible! ” Later, though, could find a sweater that matched my
she came to doubt whether the most skirt than I was with anything polit-
proper-seeming, goody-two-shoes ical.” When I asked what thelevel of 8to 22 days.
girls had been as proper as they made her interest in the Vietnam War had LondonTheatre,
themselves out to be. “They were in been, she answered, “Pretty much the Britain By Rail,
the back seat of the car like everyone same.” She did remember one thing Homes & Gardens,
else—only more so,” she surmised. about the war, however: napalm. Scotland, Ireland,
“And drinking and dope certainly “Burning up women and children Wales, Edinburgh
continued. I was heavy into dope—but with that stuff couldn’t be right,” she Festival, Highlands
only on Saturday, and never in said to me. “I knew that much.” Bill &lslands.
school.” recalled that his interest in the Water-
Large and important events of the gate crisis and the Vietnam War had
first half of this century—the Depres- been equally low. In talking to them
sion, the Second World War—had abouteither of these things, I sensed
left most of the blue-collar voters of that both events had sunk below the
Exclusively in
Milwaukee with their strong, if often horizon of the past well before they
16 days. Add New
tacit, allegiance to the Democratic began to think aboutpolitics. When I
Zealand for
Party, but if the students at St. Paul’s asked Bill what his feelings about
30 days. Sydney,
were any indication the parents had Watergate were now, he said he
Melbourne, Outback,
not passed this allegiance along to thought that Nixon had been “a train to Kuranda, =
their children. Being unspoken, per- crook” of some kind. However, he Outer Barrier Reef
haps, it had gone unlearned. Yet nei- thought that most politicians were no Cruise, Canberra.
ther did the most dramatic political less corrupt than Nixon had been, and
events of their children’s own lives so so did not hold Nixon’s misbehavior
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could remember was that in 1976, to be forced outof office, as Nixon had
Bill’s senior year, when Gerald Ford been. When I asked Bill whether he
and Jimmy Carter were running for now believed that the Vietnam War wi
President, there had been one student had been a mistake, his answer was
in the class, Bruce Franklin, who was “Just about everyone in the country =
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56 JANUARY5, 1987
answered that he didn’t have enough Franklin’s zealotry for Gerald Ford. of Gina’slife would be complete with-
information to judge, but that “we “Certainly no one was for Carter very out a few clothing stores—especially
shouldn’t have fought there if we strongly,” he recalled. As for the tur- Gimbels, in a downtown shopping
didn’t plan to win.” But when I asked bulence of the nineteen-sixties, it had center. There were few things she
whether he meant that we should been boiled down in people’s minds, he liked better, she told me, than to go
never have entered the war or that we thought, to a “kind of newsreel”: into a clothing store with a walletful
should have persisted in it until we “Here’s marching in the streets; here of money and spendit. Until recently,
wonhe again answered that he would is the Vietnam War; here are the Gina and Bill had dined out about
need more information to judge. He Beatles; here’s J.F.K. being shot— once a week; since Bill had assumed
felt, however, that in any case the oops, sorry—and hereis the concert at his new responsibilities at Standard
Reagan Administration had studied Woodstock.” As for the Vietnam American, however, they went out
the Vietnam War and would avoid War,it had been “like catching your much less. One favorite place was a
making a similar mistake. “They have parents in bed having sex,” Krauss local bar and dance place called
calibrated things more carefully,” he said, explaining, “Something dis- Tomter’s. Another was a combined
said. turbing had happened,but no one was restaurant, discothéque, and video ar-
In hersenior year, Gina dated a boy saying exactly what. Probably because cade called Tom Foolery, on a main
named Jim Krauss, who had founded of Vietnam, ourteachers did not raise route leading out of town. For a
an unofficial student newspapercalled us to believe that the United States while, Gina and Bill became mildly
Speak-Easy. Krauss (whom talked to could do no wrong. But we weren’t addicted to playing video games. They
later) remembered that on their first told that the United States had done both particularly liked Ms. Pac Man.
date he and Gina had gone to the something wrong,either.” Instead of At the heart of Gina and Bill’s
Milwaukee lakefront, where they feeling mounting dismay as the Viet- world was, of course, their own neigh-
stopped at a local gun club, and then nam debacle led into the Watergate borhood, Sherman Park. It was a
had gone back to Gina’s house and debacle, Krauss and his friends were mixed neighborhood, andthey enjoyed
baked cookies. The Speak-Easy logo conditioned bythefirst event not to be the variety. Immediately around them
was an American eagle holding a bot- shocked by the second. In his opinion, were a machine-shop foreman, a regis-
tle of liquor in its talons, and its motto the cynicism bred by Vietnam helped tered nurse, and a factory worker and
was “Theultimate newspaper.” In a to explain the indifference to Water- his family. Up the block were, among
front-page article, Krauss described gate. “ ‘Nixon stole something’ was others, a concert cellist, a mailman,
the editorial philosophy of his paper in the general impression,” he said. “I and a womanexecutive whose husband
these terms: “Unless an article can think that the most importanteffect of was a cabinetmaker. Also up the block
approach an event from a unique an- Vietnam on our education was what were GinaandBill’s best friends, Paul
le, it would be better left unwritten. we were mot told: that the United and Betty Toruncyk. He was a former
hat is why most Speak-Easy articles States was an altruistic country that seminarian who now worked for his
are either editorialistic or humorous— always did right, which is what kids father-in-law’s oil company; she
school news is bland.” Anarticle on used to be told in school. Not having worked as a counsellor for children of
the dean of students, a Mr. Ni ordberg, been taught to expect u...0 of our parents who suffered from alcoholism
described him as a “domineering and country or our leaders, we weren’t and other forms of addiction. They
even hard-nosed person,”yet granted disappointed when they turned out to had twochildren—a son, aged three,
that he “is not harsh or insensitive to be corrupt. Wewerenotstartled that a and a daughter, aged two—who
reason, nor does he close his mind to President should be forced from office played with the Gapolinskys? children.
new ideas.” In another issue, there for misconduct.” Other friends on the block included
was anarticle by Gina on the social- Bill’s office, at the local headquar- the mailman, Steve O’Rourke, and his
science teacher, Mr. Lytinsky, which ters of Standard American, was about wife, Wendy, who was a housewife;
was entirely favorable to its subject. twenty minutes’ drive away, on the Eugene Dzundza, who worked in an
Gina wrote of “Mr. Lyt” that “his south side of the city, and his delivery auto factory, and his wife, Helen, who
understanding of yesterday, his help routes had taken him, at one time was a nurse; and Fred and Elizabeth
today, and his knowledgeable predic- or another,all over the city. No map Skoretsky, who both worked as oc-
tions for our tomorrows can be an in- cupational therapists for the handi-
valuable resource to anyone with a capped, and were devoted Catholics
personal or academic problem.” An- and dedicated activists in the anti-
other article, called “You’ve Got to abortion movement. They were known
Change Your Evil Ways, Teachers,” in the neighborhood—a predominant-
took someof the teachers to task for ly Catholic one, with a fairly large
using bad languageonoccasion. Jewish minority—for their religious
When I asked Krauss what the po- and political zeal, which also included
litical atmosphere of the school had opposition to nuclear weapons. On the
been, he answered, “Malleable.” He back of their car was a bumpersticker
offered his own behavior as an exam- that read “Ban the Bomb, Not the
ple. His political inclinations were Baby.” Bill and Gina were Catholics
left-leaning anti-establishment, yet in of a more relaxed sort; they attended
1976, when he was a junior, and a church on and off, and planned to send
friend invited him to do some work for their daughters to the local parochial
the Reagan campaign, he agreed. He school, but rarely discussed religious
actually met Reagan, in a Milwaukee matters away from church.
hotel. Krauss, too, remembered Bruce Bill and Gina’s neighborhood
THE NEW YORKER 57
lacked the homogeneity and cohesive- itchy if I see more than one tree on a up and downthe block were signs an-
ness that Bill’s old neighborhood had lot,” Gina said. Also Yuppie-ish, she nouncingparticipation in Block Watch
possessed; yet life on their block was added, was the fact that Bill was “very —an association organized to report
lively, and in point of friendliness ambitious.” When I asked what she crime or the presence of suspicious-
yielded nothing to the old neighbor- thought being a Yuppie meantpoliti- looking people in the neighborhood.
hood. If anything,just because the cast cally, she said that to Bill it meant ‘There were few black residents on the
of characters on the block was diverse being a business executive, and that Gapolinskys’ street or on thestreets
and was constantly changing, a meant Republican, and she agreed immediately aroundtheirs, but twenty
greater effort was required, and made, with him. blocks to the east most of the houses
to hold the community together. The ‘The Gapolinskys and others I spoke were owned by black people, and a
young couples who formed most of to expressed pleasure andpride in their majority of the people in the local
Bill and Gina’s acquaintance were neighborhood,but an undercurrent of shopping mall were black. Kate lived
largely newcomers, but they were so- anxiety was also evident. The Sher- in a thoroughly integrated neighbor-
ciable newcomers. They gathered of- man Park neighborhood had been a hood, and an increasing number of
ten, in a spirit of hospitable, neigh- battleground in a drama black people were moving
borly camaraderie—in a “women’s whose actors were not so into Bill’s old neighbor-
group” (devoted mostly to the prob- much individual people as hood, in which his mother
lems of child-raising and other family impersonal forces—the still lived. Bill estimated that
tasks), in block parties (a popular in- drama, enacted in many the price of an average
stitution in Milwaukee), and for less American cities in the last house there had been falling
formal activities of all kinds; there few decades, in which a by about a thousand dollars
were showers, Tupperware parties, growing population of black a year for the last five years
Halloween parties, Christmasparties. people in the inner city expands into or so, and heattributed the fall to the
While Bill missed the homogeneity of traditionally white neighborhoods, fears of “ignorant white prejudiced
his old neighborhood, he was proud of driving down real-estate values and bigots.” In general, Bill associated
precipitating white flight to the sub-
the diversity of the new one, and asso- racial prejudice with lack of education
ciated it with a broadmindedness on urbs. It is a drama that has often been and with economic unsuccess, and was
his part of which he was also proud. exacerbated by real-estate companies, glad that his ownrise in the world had
Oneof his delivery routes had taken freed him from intolerance.
which, since they get a commission on
him into the black neighborhoods of each sale of a house and havea finan- Oneplace outside Milwaukee that
the innercity, and he was pleased that cial interest in rapid turnover, may loomed large (prospectively, at least)
he had been able to work harmoniously deliberately “steer” black customers in Bill and Gina’s world was
with people there. “I want black into a particular white neighborhood, “the tower”—the national headquar-
people around us,” he said to me. in the hope of panicking the white ters of the Standard American Cookie
‘Maybe not all around, with ninety population and touching off a chain Company, in Houston, where Bill
per cent in school with my daughter, reaction of sales. Sherman Park dif- was likely to find himself posted
but around. They’re part of America, fered from some other neighborhoods if he got another promotion or two.
too.” Once, when Gina suggested that faced with steering and white flight in The thought aroused ambivalence in
his racial tolerance was mostlylip ser- that it fought back. In 1971, a group him. Promotion would meanthe ful-
vice, he protested vigorously. “When of community activists, some of them fillment of his ambition. But it would
I’m on the job, and someone uses the also take him and Gina away from
veterans of the civil-rights movement,
word ‘nigger,’ then even if there are founded the Sherman Park Communi- Milwaukee—the known world for
no black guys aroundI feel offended. ty Association, which proceeded to them so far—and thatpossibility filled
Sometimes Dll say something like bring a lawsuit against real-estate both of them with profound uneasi-
‘Hey, grow up, man, this is the nine- companies for steering, an illegal ac- ness.
teen-eighties.’”’ His tolerance ex- tivity. In 1981, the association won a
tended to other minorities as well. Not court-approved settlement with the ‘iva turned the Gapolinskys’ blue
far from the Gapolinskys, two homo- Wauwatosa Realty Companyfor forty Toyota Corolla east onto Capitol
sexual men shared a house. “I give thousand dollars. Later, the associa- Drive—a broad avenue that runs
them as many free cookies from Stan- tion brought a contempt-of-court mo- nearly nine miles in a straight line
dard American as anyone else,” Bill tion against Wauwatosaforits alleged from Lake Michigan, in the east, to
told me. “They’re real nice guys— failure to abide by the terms of the the western boundary ofthe city. She
friendly and normal-acting. Now, if settlement, but lost it. The Gapolin- and I were on our way to East Mil-
they started kissing each other in the skys and their neighbors now kept an waukee,to visit the house in which she
back yard, that would turn my stom- eye on property values in the neigh- grew up. Wepassed factories, service
ach, But they don’t do anything like borhood, so that news of how much a stations, warehouses, homes, half-
that. I like them. I really do.” Some- house on the block sold for travelled hearted shopping malls, storage lots,
thing about the Gapolinskys’ life had fast. The amountof crime, much ofit fast-food places, drive-in stores, and
led Gina’s twobrothersto refer to her attributable to young black men, had parking lots, among other things—a
as “our sister the Yuppie.” When I risen. One night when the Gapolin- planless assortment of residences and
asked Gina what that meant, she said skys returned from an evening out, commercial enterprises of a kind that
that it meant that although she and they found that two pumpkins that is now often found in and outside of
Bill had enough moneyto moveoutto they had put out in preparation for American cities but that none of the
the suburbs, they had not done so. Halloween had been smashed. Recent- usual words, such as “urban” or “sub-
Both of them, she said, had decided ly, they heard that someone’s house urban,” seem quite to evoke.
that they preferred city living. “I get had been robbed. On many windows “J didn’t know I wasn’t black until
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I was about seven years old,” Gina with Gina and Bill. Once, when they in February of ’82, he met a friend
told me. “Our neighborhood turned were in bed, she stood on top of a who told him that Standard American
almost completely black several years bureau at the foot of the bed, yelled was looking for salesmen, and he got
before I was born. All my friends were “Superma-a-a-n!” and leaped on top that job.”
black. A few blocks from our house, of them. It was around that time that Linda was born in April of 1983,
there was a Lutheran church whose Bill began to smoke marijuana, at the and they boughttheir house in Janu-
congregation was mostly white, and I urging of Gina. Before that, he had ary of 1984. Meanwhile, Gina had
remember that when I saw them one told me, he considered it “immoral begun to do some free-lance work as
day I was astonished to see so many and socially degrading.” Gina went an interviewer for market-research
white people. That’s probably why I on, ‘“‘And then we discovered companies. Big changesin their lives,
have absolutely no racial prejudice Marjorie. I remember going on the Gina observed—marriage,the birth of
now.” back of Bill’s motorcycle to get a preg- their first child, graduation, a job for
We passed a sandwich-and-frozen- nancy test, and they had them onsale, Bill, the birth of their second child,
custard place called Pig’N Whistle, twofor theprice of one. We wondered buying their first house, Bill’s promo-
which had a parkinglot on three sides, how on earth anybody could need two tion into management at his company
and Gina exclaimed, ‘“That’s where pregnancytests at the same time. You —had comein rapid succession, leav-
I was first kissed, on a date, in the know—‘Andthis one’s for my sister,’ ing them little dizzy. Financial and
eighth grade! It was in the parking or something. Wegot married in Jan- family worries pressed in on them.
lot, and my mother was waiting in a uary of 1980. Marjorie was born in Gina was now worried, she said, that
car, with a bunchof my friends in the July. We had as much funatcollege the fun, partying days of their youth,
back seat. They were all watching. with Marjorie as we had had before when all they had to do was “drink
The guy couldn’t figure out what to withouther. Bill belonged to a frater- beer, smoke dope, and have sex” (“I’m
do with his nose, and he banged it nity, and all of the fraternity guys exaggerating,” she added, with a
really hard on myforehead. It was just helped us take care of Marjorie, smile), were coming to a close and
such a poorly planned thing.” She babysitting for us when we wanted to that the days of mortgage paying and
went on, “Bill and I were bothatSt. go out. His fraternity was thefirst one bill paying, housework and job pres-
that had a month-old baby. Onedif- sure were upon them. They found
Paul’s, but we didn’t get involved until
he was a freshmanat college and I was ference was that Bill’s grades just shot themselves in a tight web of interlock-
getting ready to go there the next year. up—from a two-point-three average ing pressures. Sometimes they consid-
He asked meif he could ‘help plan my to a three-point-five average. He knew ered having a third child, but that
curriculum.’ Ha, ha, ha.” he was working to meeta responsibil- would cost money. One way of making
I asked how she had liked high ity to a family. After college, we had a more money would be for Gina to get
school. rough period. I worked for a while at a regular job, but if she did she
“Tt was wonderful,” she said. “You the Milwaukee public defender’s office. couldn’t be at hometo care for the new
know how in high school you wantto My job was to help clients write up child. Another way of making more
compete to be popular. I was real into mitigating circumstances in their money would be for Bill to seek fur-
that. I did everything. I was a pom- cases. But that work burned me out ther promotion, but then he would
pomgirl: rah-rah, shortskirt, jumping fast. I learned from the experience that probably have to work even longer
—all of those things. One of my big- I didn’t want to go into the field of hours than he did now, and the whole
gest disappointments was when I criminal justice. Bill took a test at the family might have to leave Milwaukee
wasn’t made a pom-pom girl in my post office for the job his sister had, for “the tower.” Bill’s salary at pres-
senior year. Boy, was thata crisis! I sorting mail, and he got the very top ent was aboutthirty thousanddollars a
guess I always loved school—maybe grade in the test, but they weren’t year; he took homeseven hundred and
because I had sense of sadness about doing any hiring until ’82. Mean- fifty dollars every two weeks, and
the fact that I didn’t have a family to while, he did odd jobs. He worked for received about two thousanddollars in
fall back on at home,since my brothers a couple of landscaping outfits, raking tax refunds. To this, Gina added a
and sister had all grown up and left leaves, mowing lawns, and plowing few thousand from herinterviewing.
the house by then and my mother was snow. For a while, he had a paper The Gapolinskys found that even as
out working and my father wasn’t route, delivering the New York Times. things were now they were a few
there. When I got home, no one was I hated that—my husband the college hundred dollars short at the end of
there. Mom didn’t get home from graduate delivering papers. But then, each month. They made upthe short-
work until seven o’clock. Sometimes fall by means of quarterly bonuses and
I’d spend the afternoon at her sister’s the annual tax refunds.
house. She became a sort of second I asked Ginaif she thoughtthat the
mother to me.” swift changes in their circumstances
I asked how she and Bill had got had affected Bill’s political views.
married. “His parents were always Demo-
“Atcollege, Bill and I got heavily cratic,” she said. “But he always in-
involved. I lived in a house with nine clineda little in the conservative direc-
other women, and Bill stayed over a tion. Also, helikes to get a rise out of
lot. Wepractically lived together.” In people. He likes to twit the typical
those years, Ginarecalled, the women ‘Reagan’s going to blow up the world’
in college were becoming more open blue-collar type.”
and assertive sexually. As a joke, “Whattype is that?”
Gina’s roommate, Kim, would some- “You know:the unthinking, down-
times crawl into bed for a moment the-line-union-supporting, unedu-
THE NEW YORKER 61
cated, Democratic blue-collar worker. room, conversations would suddenly
‘You see, sometimes Bill likes to be stop. Then, I’d hear things like YoTy
outrageous. His becoming a Mr. Ex- ‘Those damn niggers, why can’t they
ecutive Big Deal is kind of like a joke remain in their place?’? But those are YOU May Possess
to us. It’s so unbelievable. When he my friends they’re talking about, I
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it andjust giggled. I feel like he’s try- going on.Later, in high school, I had
ing to live out that role now. After a mulatto boyfriend—his father was
Bill got his promotion, we went to black. My mom just wouldn’t accept °THE
AMERICA’S
visit a friend of ours who is a lawyer, it, and I had several run-ins with her
and hesaid, ‘O.K., you’re moving up aboutit. It was real bad. Oneathletics
in the world. Have you got your coach always cut me when he saw me
Republican Party card yet?” We all after that. Actually, though, I think
laughed and laughed.” my family influenced meto betolerant,
“How do you think your political even though they weren’t so tolerant
views were formed?”I asked. of blacks. They were always thinking
“Once, on the Phil Donahue show, about other people. They were so gen-
I saw a group of women— erous and gracious to most peo-
Women Against War, or some- ple, and I didn’t see why that
thing—holdup a banner covered didn’t apply to blacks. Any-
with dots that showed the num- way, that’s what I did. I don’t
ber of nuclear weapons in the know why. It was just right.
world,” she answered. “It covered the I was pretty much taught to grow
whole stage. Then they pointed to just up nice and right morally. I remem-
a few dots, and said, “That’s how ber one teacher in grade school who
much it takes to blow up the whole had a big influence on me. His name
world.’ So we have these bombs that was Lawrence Kenny, and he’s a
can blow the world up a couple of county supervisor now. He had a way
hundred times, and we can’t even of dealing with kids—he liked to do
create a hot-lunch program for school the fun thing. I think he helped me
kids. Now, that doesn’t make sense. I understand what was happeningin the
guess my ideas gotfixed when I was civil-rights marches. I had nowhere
growing up. We had civil-rights to go after school, and I remember
marches going on right in our front staying with him in the big, empty
yard, and although didn’t understand school. ‘Then, when it began to get
them very well at the time, they dark, I’d go home to the big, empty
influenced me a lot. Father Groppiled house.”
marches right down our street.” Fa- Weturneda corner, and Gina said, For135 years the America’s Cup has symbolized for
ther James Groppi, a Catholic priest “This is the street.” Stately three- sports lovers one ofthegreatest world events in
and civil-rights leader, led a move- story Victorian houses, adorned with competitive sports. it is the hallmark of victory
ment in the nineteen-sixties to inte-
among racing yachts.
porches, gables, towers, dormer win-
grate all-white neighborhoods in dows, crenellations, and other archi-
‘To commemorate the 1987 Races, the Flonntine Mint
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Milwaukee, with emphasis onits tectural features of an earlier time, unconditionally guaranteed limited and numbered
largely blue-collar south side. “Once, lined a street that was shaded bytall, edition which you will proudly possess as a collectible
around that time, people were shoot- spreading elms and chestnuttrees. Ev- of lasting beauty.
ing shotguns right in front of our eryonein sight on the sidewalks and in ‘There will be only 5,000 of these Sterling Silver
house,” ina went on. “My mother—
Replicas for worldwide distribution. The molds will be
the yards was black, and most looked destroyed after the manufacture ofthis extremely
I can hardly believe this—was lying poor. Some of Milwaukee’s least fortu- limited quantity, ..thus virtually assuring an increase in
on the floor. The shots rang out. Peo- nate people, it seemed, had wound up investmentvalue over time.
ple were running downthe street with in someofits most splendid dwellings. Each Cup Replica is mounted on a polished mahogany
torches and banners, singing. In the Wepulled up in front of one particu- base and enclosed in crystal clear Perspex. .its
summer of 1967, the National Guard guaranteed to weigh over 12 ‘Troy Ounces of sterling
larly handsome house. It had three and is 130mm high
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few days, because I couldn’t leave the
roof, “That’s it,” Gina said, with a Now become part of a thrilling momentin the history
house. On the worst day, my brother sigh. “It’s like ‘Gone with the Wind.’ of world sportsmanship!
Art drove in and took us out. The It’s such a beautiful house, and I loved To immediately assure that a numbered and
National Guard wasin the streets, and growing up there.” certificated America’s Cup Replica is reserved
in your name — orfor information — phone
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shotgun in the back of his car, and I house, but we spotted a young white VG
lay downon the floor as we droveout. man entering a similarly splendid
It was like the Second World War. three-story house on the cornerof the
“After that, I really started ques- block. Ginasaid thatshe recalled play-
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tioning things. When I came into a ing there with some of her young San Francisco, California 94123
62 JANUARY5, 1987
black friends. However, her mother ating from New York University Law recently, you never heard so much
had forbidden herto eat in their house, School, he returned to Milwaukee. talk. ‘It’s not that I’m against black
and had scolded her once after she There he got married and had two people, but...” and so on. I grew up
accepted somefried chicken from the children, and became involved in the nearby, and back then it was solid
family. She remembered it as the most fight of the Sherman Park Community upper middle class. Now it’s a little
delicious fried chicken she had ever Association against racial steering. In farther down the social scale. I just
eaten. We asked if we could look in- April of 1984, he was elected al- movedback into the area. There are a
side, and the young managreed, and derman. In early October, I met him lot of people there who are urban pro-
gave us his card, which revealed him in his office in the spacious, ornate fessionals—without being Yuppies—
to be a developer of “classic” houses. City Hall building in downtown Mil- and who are committed to organizing
He owned this house with a partner, waukee. He had curly, sandy hair, and and preserving neighborhoods. These
hesaid, and was planning to renovate a short sandy mustache, and was wear- are people who are not quite as com-
it and rent it out as apartments. “Ad- ing a blue shirt, a striped tie, and mitted to making bucks as some others
venturous” white people werestarting
chino pants. Working at a second desk are.”
to move back into the neighborhood in his office was Terry Perry,a slender I asked how theeffort to preserve
again, he said. More than once, he woman with shoulder-length graying the neighborhood was going.
used the words “Yuppies” and “gen- black hair, who was his assistant. I “Is it working? It’s a tough ques-
trification.” Theinterior of the down- asked Doneganto tell me something tion,” Donegan answered. “There are
stairs was donein intricately carved, about the Sherman Park community. a lot of old-time Catholics who want
dark-oak panelling. Though it was “Sherman Parkis probably the most to stay, but their Yuppie children are
true then that some of Milwaukee’s interesting—the most diverse—neigh- moving to the suburbs. People are just
poorest people were living in its most borhoodin thecity,” he said. He spoke on edge. You know, there were some
beautiful houses, I reflected, that with brisk authority, like an efficient of us in my generation who really
situation mightnotlast long. tour guide. “It used to be a predomi- hoped that we could create a new soci-
nantly professional Catholic commu-
ety, a new age.” Donegan had far-
BEN Thomas Donegan, who nity, with many people of German away, sad look in his eyes. “But I have
was the alderman representing extraction. Now manyof those people to admit thatit’s a fact that a fifty-
the Sherman Park neighborhood in remain, but it also contains the heart year-old Irish Catholic wouldn’t feel
the Common Council, the city’s legis- of the Orthodox Jewish Community, 2s comfortable in an integrated neigh-
lative body, was getting his education, whoare concentrated mostly within a borhood as I would. Of course, the
in the nineteen-sixties and early seven- few blocks. They make up a very sta- black couple may be just as angry as
ties, there was almost no form of ble, intelligent voting population. the white couple aboutcrime, property
liberal-minded protest available to They’re concerned aboutthesafety is- taxes, and so on. Actually, the white
someone of his generation which he sue. Having founded their synagogues andblack communities have very simi-
did not engage in. Born in 1945, in there, they are not as free to move as lar interests on the local level.”
Chicago, into a lower-middle-class others are. Sherman Park has also JL asked Donegan whathe was hear-
family (his father was a salesman for come to contain the heartof theliberal ing aboutthe national election.
a wholesale electrical company), he white community. The Sherman Park “A lot more people are voting Re-
moved to Milwaukee when he was six Community Association was one of publican,” he said, dispiritedly. “It
years old and attended parochial grade the earliest and most successful orga~ might be something like sixty per cent
school and high school. In 1963, he nizations of its kind in the city. It Democratic and forty per cent Repub-
entered the Jesuit College, in St. Boni- hasn’t achieved true integration, lican this year. When I was in college,
facius, Minnesota, where he began though,in spite of its partial victories we thought that through politics we
training for the priesthood. In 1967, in the courts. The races do not do could make life a hell of a lot more
as part of his training, he was sent to things together. The eastern part of bearable—that wecould create a better
St. Louis University; there he began tothe communityis predominantly black, educational system, open up corpora-
have doubts about becominga priest, the western part is almost exclusively tions to new people, stop unjust wars.
joined Students for a Democratic So- white. Whena black mother and her But almost none of those goals were
ciety, becameactive in protest against children moved into the western part achieved. There was a lot of disillu-
the Vietnam War,and helped found a sionment, suffering, and pain. Our
program to tutor poorchildren. When younger brothers and sisters were
Father Groppi madea trip to St. Louis watching, and they saw that we didn’t
to hold a rally to protest racial dis- have the answers. One of my younger
crimination, Donegan attended. In brothersis like that. He’s not so much
1968,hejoined a group of students oc- | conservative as moving into himself.
cupying the university administration He sees no benefit in what his older
building in support of demands for brother is doing. More and more, I’m
greater student involvement in the out of it. Or maybeit’s just that the
decisionsof the university. In the Pres- people in my age rangearefinding out
idential primaries of 1968, he worked from experience thatit really does hurt
for the campaign of Robert Kennedy. to pay taxes. Youhit forty and have a
And in the summer of 1970, after couple of kids and a mortgage, and
graduating from St. Louis, he worked you know once and forall that you’re
for the congressional campaign of in the class that’s writing the checks
Father Robert Drinan, in Watertown, for what the government does. It can
Massachusetts. In 1974, after gradu- get depressing.”
 THE NEW YORKER 63
I asked if he saw any signs of a parents, moved into their house in
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sures would strengthen thesocial fab- People who care about other people
ric—makeit solid. They have been in rather than just money.” She added,
place a long time; they were not taken “OF course, they’re used to having
apart—even in the Nixon years, for money. Her father owns the oil
instance. Yet now we’re finding that company that Paul now works for.”
the social fabric is full of holes: crime After dropping out of the seminary
is up, the housing stock is bad. People and before taking the job at the oil It has all the high-impactfashions
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Democrats on economic issues any- handsomeness, with a quiet, soothing
more. He wants to believe in social voice and an even,contained smile. He
programsbut thinks, Well, maybeit’s was dressed in soft shades of tan and
not charitable, but let’s let the econ- gray—light-tan corduroy jacket,
omy do its work, and anyway with darker-tan knit tie, and light-gray
Reagan in we won’t have to pay slacks. An audience of forty or fifty
higher taxes. And yet on mostissues listened with earnest, upturned faces. Cruising America’s gorgeous Colonial
he disagrees with Reagan. He’s wor- On blackboard Olen wrote “How I seaboard on the grand new Colonial
ried about the nuclear issue, and Explorer, you discover historic and quaint
he’s Feel.” His topic was how to deal with American towns,lovely resorts, stunning
worried that Reagan will appoint a negativefeelings in the family. As he islands,rolling countryside and rocky
right-wing Supreme Court. As for me, talked, he often adopted the listener’s headlands.Forreservations orfree
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attitude. P’ve got to stick it out. D’ve have negative feelings,” to mean couponor call toll-free 1-800-426-0600
got to keep on screaming. I’ve always “Let’s say you have negative feelings.” (in Seattle 624-8551).
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Address
feeling of love that I have when I’m
B% and Gina’s best friends, Paul hugging my wife or children,” he City___ State ap.
Toruncyk, the former seminar- said, in a hearty voice.
ian, and his wife, Betty, who worked Gina was the next to answer. “The
368 EXPLORATION’
as a counsellor to children of addicted most satisfying thing in my life is CRUISE LINES
(ONE OF THE ANHEUSERSUSCHCOMPANIES
64 JANUARY5,1987
when I see my daughters hug each evening, while they were discussing hated war. He wanted us to win in
other,” she said. the visits back and forth of their chil- Vietnam and get it over with. Politi-
Other, shorter answers in softer dren, Bill said to Paul, “Wetake your cally, he was pretty independent. After
voices floated up from around the kids. You get our kids.” leaving the seminary,I stayed active in
room: “Joy,” “Peace,” “My family,” the church. When Betty and I moved
“Pride.” “7 BELIEVEin what Olen said— to this neighborhood, we found that
Olen went on to ask the audience that flexibility is the move toward we werein a pretty typical ‘Going My
to name some negative feelings—the maturity,” Paul said to me when I Way’parish. It may sound snobbish,
real subject of his lecture—and, after visited him the next evening, in the but we didn’t want to hear some Bing
hearing “depression,” “anger,” and living room of their house—a two- Crosby type lecturing us about family
“pain,” amongotherthings, said that story brick- and stone-faced structure responsibility, so we started going to a
people should have those feelings up the block from the Gapolinskys’ quite activist-oriented parish called St.
sometimes, that they were valid. His house. On one wall was a picture of Agnes, in a neighborhoodthatis about
message was the need to accept one’s Christ wearing the crown of thorns, sixty per cent black and forty per cent
feelings and emotions in family life, His face twisted in agony. Over a white. In the sixties, that neighbor-
and only then—after accepting them fireplace was a painting of jagged, hoodexperienceda lot of white flight
—to attempt to deal with them. He stalagmitelike yellow peaks against a from thecity, and a couple of activist
drew a diagram of the innerlife. It dark-brown background that might priests decided to try to apply post-
was a box, inside of which he drew have been a desert at night or might Vatican II principles, and involve the
curved lines, showing the emotions. have been the surface of the moon. community heavily in the church’s
Arrowspointing from without showed Paul, who was wearinga tweedjacket, work, trying to root the parish in the
outside forces. Flexibility, he suggest- a blue button-down oxford-cloth shirt, grass roots of the community rather
ed, was one ofthe clearest signs of and bluejeans, was over six feet tall, than in the priesthood, and theydid a
mental health, and rigidity one of the and had a large, round face fringed really good job. But now the parish
clearest signs of mental trouble. On with slightly shaggy hair. His move- has been spending more money than it
the blackboard he wrote, “I Know ments were languid, and there was takes in. Theparish school runsa big
What I Feel.” He recommended that melancholy in the back of his brown deficit each year, and I’ve been in-
in order to preserveflexibility the fam- eyes. Betty was not yet home from volved in a big pledge drive to improve
ily “play with change”—for exam- the long-term finances of the parish.
work, and he was taking care of the
ple, by altering the seating arrange- children. “The seminary in the nine- Thepresent bishop is not very strong
mentat the dinnertable. teen-sixties, where some of the ideas on keeping schools open if they are not
During anintermission, an assistant mentioned by Olen were developed, financially viable. We’re in a bind.”
informed the audience that members was a dynamic place,” he continued. Paul went into the kitchen and
could buy tapes of Olen giving his “After Vatican II”—the Second Vati- started to prepare supperfor the chil-
advice, and suggested that if they can Council, which met from 1962 to dren.
played these tapes on tape recorders in 1965—“the old order was passing “Can I get in your lap?” Gordon
their cars they would find them even away, but the new order wasn’t there asked.
more exciting than rock music. yet. For me, religion has always had “No, me,”said Therese.
At the end of the lecture, Olen in- an active component. My uncle, who “You guys!” Paul said. “You're re-
vited written evaluations of his perfor- was a priest and principal of St. Paul’s ally doing a lot of attention-getting.”
mance. Bill wrote, “It seemed to an High before Bill and Gina wentthere, He gaveeach a turn on his lap.
extent that you were speaking to some was a very active and vigorous man. I asked whom he favored in the
undirected, underprivileged people of When I was seven years old, inspired Presidential election.
the nineteen-sixties. You stressed some by his example, I decided to become a “Tm leaning toward Reagan,” he
very obvious things. I would like to see priest. The political movements of the said. “But I’m really indecisive about
youinstill interest rather than to sell sixties—especially the civil-rights ite”
interest. That makes you seem too movementled by Father Groppi—had “How have you proceeded from
much of a business. I did hear and a strong impact on the seminary. My yourlife of social activism to consider-
learn some very worthwhile ideas.” brother, who is now a bookeditor in ing a vote for a man as opposed to
Afterward, Bill told Gina, Paul, Boston, had big fights about the war in spending on social programs as Presi-
and Betty that he had been “turned Vietnam with my father, who was a dent Reaganis?” I asked.
off”bythe sales pitch in the intermis- lieutenant colonel in the National “Well, of course, I’ve now had the
sion. Paul said that in his opinion Guard. I was living at the seminary, life-experience of business,” he an-
Bill’s reservations represented a “typi- so I didn’t fight with my dad much. swered musingly. “I’ve been around
cal Midwestern attitude,” and that if He fought in the South Pacific during people who are constantly criticizing
Bill had spent more time on the two the Second World War, and was very ‘big government.’ And then Pve had
coasts of the United States he would be gunghoaboutthe military. But at the some practical experience with gov-
used to this sort of “slick, glamorous sametime, you know, I think he really ernmentregulation. For instance, I’ve
promotion.” been putting together a new filling
At this, Gina cried out, “Oh, Paul, station, and I called the city to ask
you’re always pulling rank on us, cul- what permits I’d need. Of course, I’m
turally.” new to all this. The guy I talked to
“Not on you, Gina,” Paul answered. said that they were going to runa test
Gina explained to me that Bill and on the tank we were putting in, and
Paul were highly competitive, and en- thatif it checked out we could proceed.
joyed kidding each other. Later in the Buthefailed to tell me that we'd need
 THE NEW YORKER
a different permit for the pumps we
operated. Solater, after I’d opened the
station, a guy comes along andsays,
‘Where is your permit to install
pumps? You have to pay six dollars
per gas hose to the city.’ I had to
make a special trip downtown to get
the extra permit. It was an inconve-
nience and a total waste of time. So I
can see how theattitude of the busi-
nessman becomes ‘Get the government
out, and keep your handsoff our busi-
ness, because we candoitall ourselves.
Let the free market operate.’ It’s the
first time I’ve had that perspective.
And I can see the logic that follows
from that point of view. So I find
myself strangely and uncomfortably
agreeing with what Reagansays. You
know—I agree if I work within that
model. Within that framework.”
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Expats came in. The children rushed into the flect on whatbusiness is,” he contin-
hall to embrace her, and she took them
up to bed.
ued, “and I see the whole exploitive
side of it. For example, the way you
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who are very left-wing—certainly so- benefit in this way. He takes homehis
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should be—about the need for justice asks.”
for the poor. A big catchwordI hearis “Of the two candidates, Mondaleis
‘solidarity’ with the poor. Now, I the one who looks as if he would spend
grew up in Whitefish Bay—a rich more on social programs,” I said.
suburb, just north of the city, that “Are you in favor of that?”
some people call White Folks Bay, “At this point in history, I don’t
because it’s sort of the essence of prep- like it,” he said. “Not because ’m
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and even though I didn’t have any Betty came downstairs, and she and
part in it, wealthy people became Paul and I moved into the living
legitimate to me. They’re people, room. Betty was a slender, attractive
too; they’re human beings,justlike the young womanwitha pale,girlish face
poor. So when I have someof these framed by blond bangs and shoulder-
discussions with my radical friends, length straight hair. She worea tai-
many of whom grew up in Cudahy, lored tweed jacket, an ivory blouse
which is a working-class part of town, with a floppy bow at the neck, and a
in union families, I can’t stomach gray flannel skirt. I asked her whom
someof their radicalism—forinstance, she favored in the election.
whenthey suggest that every business- “T think Reagan is going to win,”
manis the devil incarnate. I just can’t she said. “I don’t see Mondale as a
believe that. I know that my father-in- real strong Democrat. Although I do
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the possible end of the world.
“You see, it’s my view that the
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“The end?”Betty asked.
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MUSICAL EVENTS have. One—andinitself it would be
enough—is command of the music: an
Discoursing Most Eloquent Music understanding of why at each moment
the composition makes the moves it
[ Merkin Hall last month, I heard scores and records where string quar- does. Their performances are fine-
three enjoyable evenings of cham- tets will fill the days, and Haydn grained, energetic, and compelling.
ber music. One was provided by works still unheard will become fam- Another of the recitals was the
the Composers String Quartet, which iliar. The phonograph has given second in Merkin Hall’s On Original
began its recital with Beethoven’s Everyman musical resources richer Instruments series. The program was
Opus 18, No. 1, and ended it with than Prince Esterhazy’s. And each built on Mozart’s two piano quartets,
Beethoven’s Opus 130 (the Big Fugue quartet—using the word for the played by Malcolm Bilson and three
played as finale), and between those players, not the works—has its own members of the Gainsborough Quar-
works gave the New York premiére of character. The Léner, the Busch, and tet: Elizabeth Wilcock, Jan Schlapp,
Elliott Carter’s Fourth String Quar- the Budapest Quartets provide comple- and Timothy Mason. Eighteenth-
tet. I wrote about the Carter too re- mentary traversals of Beethoven. century quartets for piano, violin, vi-
cently—after the Composers played it Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert ola, and cello—Mozart’s and Beetho-
at Vassar College, in November—to also need rediscovery in performances ven’s were written at much the same
feel any need to say much more. Butin played on instruments, with tech- time, 1785-86—are hard to balance on
that first review, being unwilling to niques, andinstyles that the composers powerful modern instruments. Mr.
spoil the surprise of the very last bar, themselves would have recognized; Bilson played an instru
ment based on
I failed to describe the extraordinary and suchrestoration has become a spe- the c. 1795 Jean-Louis Dulcken piano
beauty of the final pages: an alterna- cialty of our day. The Composers in the Smithsonian,andits sweet, inti-
tion of soft, shining chords on muted Quartet does not provide the sensual mate singing blended perfectly with
strings—built up note by note, with sonic pleasures to be had from the the unmodernized string instruments.
each note tenderly and lovingly placed Léner, the Italian, or the LaSalle The Gainsboroughplayers are not in
—and bold, vigorous gestures, un- Quartet. In that department, perhaps themselves striking interpreters—
muted. There was no disappointment, only the full, nutty melodies of the modest, sensitive enactors, rather,
of a
no feeling that in the excitement of a second violin, Anahid Ajemian, pro- great composer’s will. Mr. Bilson’s
first encounter I had overpraised the vide a thrill of pleasure, whenever she piano seemed unsettled, reluctant
to
work—or its performers. During the has the lead, whereas the leader, Mat- stay in tune. It was an evening notof
intermission that followed, manypeo- thew Raimondi, has a tone somewhat rapture butof quiet, intense pleasure in
ple expressed regret that the quartet unrounded, and, on occasion, even er- Mozart’s inventions. The Violin So-
was not going to be played again. rant in pitch. I murmured as much nata K. 305 and the Piano Sonata
(The program had failed to announce to a friend and colleague after the K. 330 completed thebill.
that the performance could be heard Merkin recital, and was _reproved: The third recital was given by
again,the following evening, by tun- “One doesn’t go to a Composers Judith Pearce, flute, and Elizabeth
ing in to WNYC.) But Opus 130 Quartet concert for ‘tone;’ those play- DiFelice, piano. Miss Pearce is a rare
proved to be a well-chosen companion ers have other virtues.” And so they and beautiful performer. Once upon a
piece. One tendedto lis-
ten to it in light still
lingering from the
Carter quartet—to hear
polyrhythms, indepen-
dence of characteriza-
tion in the four in-
struments, abruptnesses
that did not conceal con-
tinuity of discourse,
transfigurations of met-
rical time. And under-
stood why the string
quartet has been, and
remains, the ideal
medium for great com-
posers’ adventurous, in-
timate thoughts—
why Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schubert,
Mendelssohn, Bartok,
Schoenberg, Shostako-
vich, Tippett, Britten,
Carter have returned
to it again and again.
Sometimes I look for-
wardto retirement in a
house well stocked with “You moved.”
 intonation more nearly perfect.
Onceor twice, I questioned Miss
Pearce’s, but decided that an ill-
tuned piano was disturbing pur-
est concord. Barték’s Hungarian
Peasant Songs (the piano suite
arranged for flute and piano by
Paul Arma), which ended the
billed program, contained some
piquant contradictions between
Miss Pearce’s flexible flute,
obedient to nature’s inflections,
and Miss DiFelice’s strictly
twelye-tone—but out-of-tune—
piano. As an encore, there was
Fauré’s serenely rapturous “Mor-
ceau de Lecture.”
Between the Roussel and the
Barték, Miss Pearce and Miss
DiFelice gave the American
premiére of Jonathan Harvey’s
“Nataraja” (1983), for piccolo,
MANKOFF flute, and piano. Nataraja is
Shivainhis aspect as the dancing
god, creator and destroyer of
matter throughouteternity. The
ROUGHI NG IT piece is ten minutes of very excit-
ing music, now dazzling, aflame,
then sunk in smoky mystery.
The vague, whispery chords
time, budding instrumentalists were music (and as a result some of them of modern flute technique are used for
urged to study and emulate the tone concluded that conservatory lessons expressive, not merely quaint, effect.
control, articulation, phrasing, and had little to do with what was going Both players werebrilliant.
shaping of great singers; today’s bud- on in the real world). I wish someone
ding singers would do well to attend to would revive his opera “Sapho,”about onaTHAN Harvey’s wonderful
Miss Pearce’s handling of such things. which Berlioz had good thingsto say. electronic composition “Mortuos
She is an artist who can transport The Grand Duo is a poised, galant Plango, Vivos Voco,” built from the
listeners with a single note: by purity composition of considerable melodic sounds of a bell and boy, which I
and beauty of timbre, by the way the and harmonic charm, but it hard- wrote about after Tanglewood, has
ly demonstrates Reicha’s adventurous now appeared on disk (Erato/RCA).
note lives, shines, swells and subsides
or, according to context, is held un- concerns with thestuff itself of music. His remarkable Second String Quartet
changed for just the right length of Thecarefully planned program was —based on Rudolf Steiner’s idea “If
time. Her recital began with C. P. E. a loving tribute to the instrument in we immerseourselves in an individual
Bach’s sonata for solo flute, in whose all its aspects. At the heart of the note, it reveals three, five, or more
Poco Adagio there was a Casals-like recital Miss Pearce placed Albert notes; the single note expands into a
feeling for emphasis and inflection. Roussel’s “Flute Players.” Theplay- melody and harmony leading straight
Then there was Duncan Druce’s five- ers are Pan, Tityrus, Krishna, and into the world of spirit”—has been
minute miniature “Lacerta Agilis” M.de la Péjaudie, from Henri de recorded by the Arditti Quartet (Brit-
(1984)—thesand lizard, which alter- Régnier’s novel “La Pécheresse.” The ish RCA, along with Carter’s Third,
nates immobility and quicksilver mo- suite is an exploration of the instru- and Brian Ferneyhough’s Second).
tion. The first half ended with An- ment’s mythic and mystical powers, His ‘Madonna of Winter and
toine Reicha’s Grand Duo Concertant. from its origin as a notched reed, Spring,” commissioned by the BBC,
Reicha, who played flute in the Bonn raped from the riverbank (Sweet, had its premiére at the London Proms,
orchestra when Beethoven was viola sweet, sweet, O Pan!Piercing sweet by in August, in the Albert Hall. It is a
there, and whotaught Liszt, Berlioz, the river! Blinding sweet, O great god forty-minute composition for large or-
Gounod, and César Franck, piques Pan!”), to the modern, metal precision chestra, three synthesizers, and five
curiosity. Early in the century, he was instrument. “Krishna” evoked some of sound operators who can send the
practicing polymetrics and bitonality; Miss Pearce’s loveliest tone, untainted tones of the piano, harp, and vibra-
he championed quarter-tone notation by the throbbing wobble that many phone, ring-modulated, and of the
and speaking choruses; he had a Bar- famous flutists affect, but not un- clarinet, English horn, horn, and
t6k-like enthusiasm for folk music as a warmed by touches of gentle vibrato. trumpet, amplified, winging around or
living force; he foresaw the dissolution She played an instrument by Albert hovering in space, through two banks
of classical tonality; he insisted that Cooper, a maker whorecalculated dis- of loudspeakers, one stationed high,
students should listen to contemporary tances and dimensions to insure flute one low. Reverberation devices some-
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74 JANUARY5,1987
AROUND CITY HALL contracts, and Lester Shafran, who,in
May, 1978, had been nameddirector
A FINE MESS of the P.V.B. by the Koch administra-
tion. In July, 1978, the administration
HILE such names as Meese, head of the Department of Transpor- had promoted Lindenauer to the post
McFarlane, Regan, Poin- tation, of which the P.V.B.is a sub- of deputy director of the P.V.B., thus
dexter, and North—the last sidiary, and within weeks Citisource putting the two men in positions
of which,it is now astonishing to re- was being traded on the stock ex- in which they could conspire to fleece
member,only a handful of Americans change. By the following February, the city. (Lindenauer, having pleaded
had heard eight or nine weeks ago— the value of stock that Citisource had guilty last March to RICO charges,
spin about in the national conscious- given Friedman for steering the con- provided much of the evidence against
ness, civically responsible residents of tract through the board—stockthat he his former partners in crime at the
this city have tried to leave room in expected to divide up with Manes, New Haventrial, where, according to
their minds for such other names as who was named as an unindicted co- the evidence of other witnesses, Manes
Shafran, Lazar, Friedman, Botnick, conspirator, and with the P.V.B. dep- and the even more rotund Lindenauer
Turoff, Lindenauer, McLaughlin, and uty director, Geoffrey Lindenauer, were routinely referred to by their co-
Ameruso, few of which most New who had manipulated the P.V.B. con- conspirators as Fat Boy One and Fat
Yorkers could have properly identified tract process so that Citisource had no Boy Two.) The fourth defendant was
in January, 1986, and whose owners significant competition—had soared to Marvin Kaplan, the president of
have since been indicted or called over two and a half million dollars. Citisource. Although thetrial dwelt at
before grand juries, or have precipi- By the end of thetrial, to many length on the Citisource contract, the
tately departed from City Hall during local citizens following the corruption testimony was full of descriptions of
this year of New York’s municipal story (even as they also tried to keep other transactions in which the Bronx
scandals. Some days, it has been up with what the President’s men had and Queens Democratic bosses had
especially hard to keep up with simul- been up to in the Middle East and exercised their powers over city gov-
taneous national and local demonstra- elsewhere) thedetails of the Citisource ernment“like medieval barons,” in the
tions of the relationship between gov- coup had become as familiar as the wordsof local United States Attorney
ernments and questions of criminal stops on the family Monopoly board— Rudolph Giuliani, who tried the case.
law. Shortly before noon on November including “Goto Jail.”” On November
During Giuliani’s cross-examination
25th, the jury in the federal court- 25th in New Haven (to which the of Friedman, the prosecutor asked if
house in New Haven announced that trial had been removedat the request someone eager for a city contract had
it had reached a verdict in the case of of defense attorneys, who argued that
once paid him ten thousand dollars to
four men charged in what was widely because of the immense publicity the make two phonecalls. “One phone
referred to as the Friedman trial—in corruption story had received here a call,” Friedman corrected him. Each
honor of the best-known defendant, fair trial was impossible in this city), of the four convicted men—whoare
Stanley Friedman, the Democratic the four defendants, tried under the scheduled to be sentenced on March
boss of the Bronx. Friedman, like federal Racketeer-Influenced Corrupt Ist, when the appeals processes will
Donald Manes, the Democratic boss Organizations law (or RICO), wereall presumably have been completed—
of Queens, who was also Queens foundguilty of a series of charges that faces a possible million-dollar fine and
borough president, had been Mayor amounted to their having turneda city as muchas fifty yearsin jail.
Edward Koch’s good friend and close agency into a racketeering enterprise This sweeping judgmentin a court
political ally. Much of the evidence for their own enrichment. Besides of law affirminga corruptsituation at
against the defendantsin this first ma- Friedman, those convicted included New York’s City Hall would surely
jor case resulting from the corruption Michael Lazar, a former head of the have been the lead story the next
investigations revolved around their city’s Transportation Department who morning if it had been an ordinary
successful effort to win for a company subsequently became a real-estate de- news day. It did make the front pages,
called Citisource a twenty-two-mil- veloper with a numberoflucrativecity but the top story was the White House
lion-seven-hundred-thousand-dollar press conference—also held about noon
contract to provide the city’s Parking [ on November 25th—at which it was
Violations Bureau with hand-held announced that up to thirty million
computers for traffic agents to use in dollars of profits from America’s clan-
writing parking tickets. At the time destine arms shipments to Iran (news
the contract was voted by the Board of of which haditself shaken confidence
Estimate—which is made up of the in Reagan’s Administration when it
Mayor, the president of the City was revealed, three weeks earlier) had
Council, the city comptroller, and the been secretly diverted to the Nicara-
presidents of the five boroughs— guan Contras. New York City had
Citisource had no manufacturing fa- been outscandaled.
cilities, and not even a working proto-
type of the hand-held computer. Its “HE midwinter holidays are often
only asset would be the city contract. a time for reminiscence. Where
The board’s decision came in July, did we go last year for Christmas? For
1984, having been hurried along after New Year’s? Whowas there? Andten
a meeting Friedman held with one of years ago? The new yearbegins,after
Koch’s deputy mayors, Stanley Brez- all, with a month that the Romans
enoff, and Anthony Ameruso, the named for a god wholooked backward
THE NEW YORKER
as well as forward. And long before
Charles Dickens, writing “A Christ-
mas Carol,” invented muchof Christ-
mas as we know it, Yuletide celebra-
tors doubtless on occasion conjured up
ghosts of Christmas Past to remind
them of the way things used to be.
Only a couple of months ago, before
what President Reagan has called
“that rag in Beirut” published the
news of American arms shipments to
Iran, most Americans, including New
Yorkers, would have found it
unimaginable that some cartoonists
would be marking this holiday season
by portraying the popular President,
winner of reélection by a landslide,
being visited by a spirit of Christmas
Past in the form of a ghostly Richard
Nixon,urging him,in onecartoon, to “Yowre right, he is smiling. Now get him to stop.”
“burn the tapes.” In this city a year
ago, the events of these past twelve .
months would have seemed similarly
incredible. It was on the morning of he had persuaded Lindenauerto use to ably, New York’s Mayor may wish he
January 1, 1986, that Edward Koch, leave this country for one from which had the powerto rewrite the City Hall
who was aboutto be inaugurated for a he could not be extradited. Manes oc- script “Dallas”style, so that it would
third term after his landslide reélection cupied a prominent place at Koch’s turn out that the whole year wasjust a
the previous November, told a group inauguration on the steps of City Hall dream, and never really happened. On
of reporters that he saw the whole City the next day. Also present was United his sixty-second birthday, this Decem-
Hall scene as suffused with “sweetness States Attorney Giuliani. In thefall of ber 12th, Koch assured reporters that
and light.” In his inaugural speech, 1985, in a federal sting operation in he didn’t feel a day over thirty-one—
expounding onall the good things that Chicago, a man named Bernard San- but added that he had aged nine years
had come about in the city since he dow, the ownerof a collection agency since his last birthday.
took over as mayor, in 1978, he said, that had contracts with the P.V.B.,
“It is time to put aside uncertainty and had been implicated as the payer of NYONErecently arrived at City
give ourselves the credit we de- bribes to a similar municipal agency in Hall can have little inkling of
serve...to pat ourselves on the the Midwestern city in return for lu- how crowded it is with ghosts of De-
back.” John Cardinal O’Connor and crative collection contracts. Sandow, cember (and all other months) Past:
Governor Mario Cuomo were on hand hoping to improve his chances for a that is, with spectres of familiar, often
for the event. The Mayor was sworn lenient sentence, agreed to be helpful popular figures who only a year ago
in by Sol Wachtler, who is the chief to federal authorities here. On No- were in and out of the place nearly
judge of the Court of Appeals, New vember 26, 1985, in the men’s room of every day but aren’t seen aroundthere
York State’s highest court. Before the Hisae’s Place, a restaurant on Cooper anymore. These include, of course,
ceremony, Koch met in his office for Square, near the P.V.B. offices, he paid Manes, who on March 13th succeeded
coffee with a small group of digni- a five-thousand-dollar bribe to Lin- in a secondsuicide attempt, plunging a
taries, including Wachtler, and some denauer, who, if the usual pattern knife into his heart in the kitchen of
friends, among them Friedman, who his home in Queens. In the case of
was followed, would split it with
made a few jokes—an occasion that Manes. A short while later, Linden- any political scandal—as will surely
Friedman and the Judge may remem- auer learned that he was underinvesti- be true for decades to come—refer-
ber if Manhattan District Attorney gation. Giuliani told the News recent- ences to events during Richard
Robert Morgenthau proceeds with his ly that at Koch’s inauguration, having Nixon’s final years in office are oblig-
plan to try Friedman on other charges learned that the trail led directly to atory, although in the corruption
in the state courts, and the case should Manes and Friedman, he sat through story here, and in what some people
reach the Court of Appeals. the ceremonylooking from one manto are calling Iranscam, the question of
Manes was also among Koch’s the other trying “to figure out whether what the chief executive knew and
friends at that gathering. About eigh- it was all true or not.” It was in the when has become such a cliché that
teen hours earlier, around twilight early morning of January 10th that, in it now tends to be used only with
on New Year’s Eve, he had met the first dramatic act of what has now
variations. The caption on a Wash-
Lindenauer at East Eighty-second taken on the fascination of a grisly ington Post cartoon hasthe President
Street and Park Avenue, and they had local folktale, Manes was found in his saying, “What do I know? And when
got into a car and started driving car, near Shea Stadium, bleeding pro- will I know it?” Andthereis the local
north. A few minutes later, Manes headline “DID THE MAYOR WANT
fusely from self-inflicted stab wounds
handed the deputy director of the —the first signal to most New TO KNOW?” In this city’s current
P.V.B. an envelope containing fifty- Yorkers that there might be something scandals, in view of what happened
eight thousand dollars in cash, which terribly wrong with some areas of on March 13th, variations on the
he hoped—vainly, as it turned out— their city government. Understand- old bumperstickers that said “Nobody
76 JANUARY5, 1987
Died at Watergate” will not apply. grant of immunity in a Bronx investi- private client; the third concerned his
Other recent City Hall regulars are gation—whichis still going on—into having filed false financial-disclosure
missing for reasons that include in- possible corruption in the awarding of statements with two city agencies—
dictment. Jay Turoff, the former head towing contracts by his department. statements intended to reveal possible
of the city’s Taxi and Limousine (Atthat time,refusing totestify with- corruption or conflict of interest. His
Commission (routinely referred to as out immunity was not being treated by sentence was five years’ probation, one
the T.L.C.), wholeft office involun- so many Americans as the act of a year of communityservice, in the form
tarily last February, is scheduled to go hero.) Last December 2nd, Ameruso of assisting in the care of AIDS pa-
ontrial February 17th in federal court was indicted for having lied under tients, and six months in the city jail
in Brooklyn. He is charged with oath, to conceal the fact that as oflast on Riker’s Island—a sentence that his
fraud, conspiracy, and tax. evasion, January 24th he had owned a quarter lawyer, Thomas Puccio (who was also
in connection with promoting the of a million dollars’ worth of stock in Stanley Friedman’s lawyer), immedi-
purchase of taximeters from a com- a real-estate concern associated with a ately appealed. “It took a lot less time
pany owned byseveral friends, and company to which on January 16th— going down than it did going up,”
with the financing of the company thirteen days before his resignation— McLaughlin, once thought of as the
through illegal diversions of funds he had awarded a controversial fran- rising star of the Koch administration,
from a credit union called HYFIN. (In chise, covering at least five times the said sadly in the courtroom. Readers of
this city, at least, principals in the taxi customary period of time, to run a an article about him in the Spring/
industry are not widely associated with ferry across the Hudson between Wee- Summer, 1985, issue of the alumni
the more compassionate aspectsoflife, hawken, New Jersey, and West magazine of the University of Penn-
and somelocal citizens find it ironic Thirty-eighth Street, in Manhattan. sylvania Law School, from which Mc-
that Turoff’s trial will require fre- Ferry service began last month. There Laughlin graduated in 1970, had spe-
quent references to initials that are are New Yorkers who feel that the cial reason to be reminded of how
otherwise short for “tender loving revival of such service after almost swiftly someone’s fortunes may
care” and to HYFIN, whichstands for twenty years is such a boon thatit is change. “McLaughlin thrives on the
Help Your Friend in Need.) Another picky to ask questions about how it power he wields as president of the
high-level Koch official who is not came about. But, for that matter, the H.H.C.,” said the article, which,
around City Hall anymore on account ‘Tweed courthouse, whose construc- while noting that he had high praise
of legal problems is Ameruso,the for- tion made William Marcy Tweed a for Koch, concluded, “McLaughlin
merhead of the Department of Trans- rich man (and where the reception insists that he would not take Mayor
portation. When Ameruso resigned, was held after Koch’s mostrecent in- Edward I. Koch’s job “for anything,
last January 29th, the Mayor ex- auguration), is now a highly valued Let us wait and watch.” The former
plained thathis departure was required example of nineteenth-century urban H.H.C.president was acquitted on a
because he “had to be held account- architecture. bribery count that charged that, in the
able” for what was discovered to have On December 9th, John McLaugh- summer of 1983, in the name of a
been going on in the P.V.B. The lin, who had served in the Koch ad- client, he had received at a cut rate a
Mayor said that Ameruso’s owninteg- ministration as head of the Health and hundred and fifty thousand dollars’
rity was, however, “impeccable.” He Hospitals Corporation, the municipal worth of stock in Nu-Med,a Califor-
was quite severe with reporters who hospital system, which has an annual nia company that, not long afterward,
reminded him that until about a week budget of nearly twobillion dollars, was awarded a million-dollar no-bid
earlier he had been saying much the becamethefirst city official to be sen- contract with the H.H.C. However,
same thing about Manes, whom by tenced since the corruption scandal there appears to be some question in
this time he was denouncing as a broke. He had been convicted in Au- McLaughlin’s mind whether District
crook. The Mayor was also harsh gust of forgery, grand larceny, and Attorney Morgenthau’s investigation
with reporters who reminded him that filing false documents. The first two of that matter is over. After his sen-
before he first took office, he had ap- charges involved his relations with a tencing, McLaughlin told Joe Calder-
pointed a commission of public-spir- one, a reporter for Newsday, that his
ited New Yorkers to consider candi- taking of the stock had been “ratified”
dates for transportation commissioner, by Victor Botnick, Koch’s good friend,
and that when the panel declared campaignassistant, and special advis-
Ameruso to be unqualified he had dis- er on health matters. Botnick, Mc-
missed the panel and appointed Laughlin said, had been in the room
Ameruso anyway. Despite the Mayor’s when the stock deal was made. (About
estimation of Ameruso’s integrity, the same time, Botnick solicited from
various actions of his former commis- Nu-Med a five-thousand-dollar con-
sioner of transportation have been tribution for Koch’s campaign trea-
targets of legal inquiries ever since he sury, which the Mayor did not return
made it. One consequence has been until eight monthslater, after report-
that Ameruso has been unable to col- ers inquired about it.) Botnick denied
lect sixty-two thousand dollars due McLaughlin’s story, and the Mayor
him in severance pay, because the ap- said he had every confidence that
plication for such funds required him Botnick was telling the truth. The
to swear that he was not under crimi- thirty-two-year-old Botnick succeeded
nal investigation. Last summer, both McLaughlin as head of the H.H.C.
he and the general counsel of the last January but was forced to resign
D.O.T.declined to testify without a six months later, when it developed
THE NEW YORKER 77
that he had lied about his educational sources Administration, the Housing
credentials not only in interviews with Authority, the Department of Housingg Country.
reporters but on official documents. Preservation and Development, the
Like Ameruso, Botnick, as of late last Sanitation Department, the Depart-
month,had failed to sign the papers ment of Correction, the Department
Curtains.
saying he was not under criminal in- of General Services, the Personnel FREE COLOR CATALOG
vestigation, which would allow him to Department, the City Planning Country
collect seventeen thousand dollars in Commission, and the Department of Curtains are a
severance pay. A few weeks ago, he Investigation. Thelast official to leave tradition ...
told Marcia Kramer, City Hall bureau before Schwarz was Koch’s press sec- years of old-
chief of the News, “I’m going to retary, William Rauch, who an- fashioned
quality and
get Fritz Schwarz,”referring to Fred- nounced his departure,to take a job in conscientious
erick Schwarz, the city’s corporation the private sector, two weeks before service.
counsel, who he believed had unduly Reagan’s press spokesman, Larry Curtainsin
insisted on adheringto legalities in his Speakes, made a similar announcement cotton muslin or carefree
case, and who had proposed that at the White House. (Rauch’s succes- permanentpress, some with
Botnick put in some monthsofservice sor is George Arzt, the former Post ruffles, others with fringe or lace
in a hospital ward for the terminally bureau chief at City Hall. Somecritics trim. Also tab curtains, insulated
ill. This led to such local headlines as of the Post have grumbled that this curtains, charmingballoon and
“BEDPANS FOR BOTNICK”after, as was a natural progression:in its cover- lace curtains, wooden curtain rods
Botnick pointed out to the News, age of City Hall, that paper has often . wonderful items for your
“nine years of putting my life on the been accused of publishing all the home.Free color catalog. Please
call 413-243-1300 or write us.
line for Ed Koch.” The Mayorsaid news the Mayorseesas fit to print. It Satisfaction guaranteed.
that Botnick’s statement about has not proved to be reliable on all
Schwarz had been foolish but that occasions, however. During aninter- O PLEASE SEND FREE CATALOG
Botnick was understandably “frus- view with Post editors and reporters Name
trated”—possibly because nearly six last winter, the Mayorprotested, as he Address
months after he left, the former head often did throughout the year, that City
of a city agency with a nearly two- there was no way he could have State Zp
billion-dollar annual budget had not known of the corruption in his gov-
found permanent work. The Mayor ernment—a claim that won him an COUNTRY CURTAINS,
At The RedLion Inn
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saw as the corporation counsel’s large- for 1986. Arzt reminded the Mayor
minded comment after Botnick’s that there had been some clues—that,
threat. Schwarz had said, “One has to for example, Post reporter David
have sympathy for someonelike him.” Seifman, having looked at the The
Citisource prospectus, had written a
Schwarz is the mostrecentofficial to Russian Tea Room
announcethathe is leaving the Koch column-and-a-half story on August
City Hall. So far, according to the 30, 1984, describing Friedman’s role
News bureau chief, who is the keeper as the major shareholder in the com-
of the masterlist, the number of high- panythat had just pulled off the lucra-
level figures who have left the admin- tive hand-held computer deal.) It’s lit-
istration since the Mayor’s reélection tle wonder that 1986 is known here as
has reached fifty-four, meaning thatit not only the year of the scandals but
makes more sense to count those who the year of the big City Hall reces-
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thereof, some resigned at the Mayor’s dered in its own way, administrations
instigation, because he had let it be that are in deep trouble tend to act
known that they had offended him in muchalike. There will be talk of stone- SUN. STYLE. SECLUSION.
some way; some undoubtedly con- walling and shredding. (One of the Secreted awayin the midstof Palm
cluded that it was a prudent time to counts in the Ameruso indictment is Springs’ most prestigious
loosen their ties to the beleaguered that the impeccable transportation residential neighborhood lies this
Mayor; and some simply opted for a commissioner arranged to have docu- gemofa resort featuring only 17
changein career course—a group that ments destroyed that would demon- roomsandthe practiced
surely includes Schwarz, who, after strate the alleged conflict of interest on refinements of Europeanstyle
four years as corporation counsel, will his part.) The chief executives in-
be going back to his old downtown volved will put as much distance as

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erning. Though polls may show that dals has been the Mayor’s ability to mission headed by Judge Samuel Sea-
their favorable ratings have dropped boast, as he often had in the past, that bury investigated corruption in the ad-
alarmingly (those of both Koch and clubhouse bosses such as Esposito, ministration of New York’s Mayor
Reagan plunged twenty-one points Manes, and Friedman—who,on the Jimmy Walker and cameup with such
soon after their respective scandals stand in New Haven,bragged that he an abundance of damning evidence
broke), the politicians at the top will had placed “hundreds and hundreds” that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt,
insist that before you know it they will of people in government—were outof who was then the Democratic Pres-
bounce back—or, alternatively, that luck if they expected any patronage idential nominee, seemed to have no
they have already bounced back(as the from him. choice but to cashier the popular
Mayor claimed was the case here last Chief executives who, when the mayor, a fellow-Democrat—an em-
March). They will agree that other news of their administrations is good, barrassment of which Walkerrelieved
people made mistakes. At the annual are right up front in the glare of the him by resigning.
Gracie Mansion party for the City television lights, apparently in total It is understandable that a political
Hall press corps last month (Koch charge, are often less conspicuous leader caught up in scandals would
does not invite reporters whom hesees about accepting responsibility when feel kinship with leaders who are or
as having offended him, just as Rea- things go wrong. Koch, when he is have been beset by similar troubles.
gan does not invite the columnists asked by reporters, will say that heis, Although Koch still regularly de-
Rowland Evans and Robert Novak to of course, accountable for what has nounces President Reagan for having
his annual White Housepress party), been done in his administration. He cut funds for urban projects, he
the guests gave the Mayor a mugthat will then quickly add that by this he warned last monththatif critics pur-
said “Once I Thought I Madea Mis- means he is folitically accountable, sue the Iran-Nicaragua case against
take, But I Was Wrong.” Koch has and that, in turn, means, he goes on to the President unfairly, for their own
admitted that he made a mistake, but say, that in 1989, when he runs again political or other gain, the American
he maintains that it was committed for mayor, the voters can decide people would not stand for it, and
long ago and in a good cause:in early whether or not he did a good job in would rise up in protest—forgetting,
1978, he should not have named governing the city. Whenonereporter perhaps, the large anti-Nixon class
Ameruso commissioner of transporta- reminded him this fall that this is not elected to Congress in the post-Water-
tion over his advisers’ objections. He the way accountability is usually de- gate year of 1974. Reminded that he
had done so, the Mayor explained, fined, he explained that whereas City had often boasted in the past that as a
because of the importanceof insuring Hall reporters could be fired by their member of Congress he was among
ethnic and geographic diversity in his employers—a prospect that did not the first to call for the resignation—
cabinet. This explanation startled City
seem to depress him—“only the voters and, indeed, the impeachment—of
Hall observers who have heard the can fire me.” When he was reminded President Nixon, the Mayorsaid that
Mayor denounce ethnic quotas hun- that he could also be removed by the he thought those in charge of the
dreds of times, insisting that it is his governor of the state, the Mayor de- Watergate investigation “could have
responsibility to make appointments manded to know whetherthe reporter handled things better.”
entirely on merit—a moral stance was charging him then andthere with
whoseresult seems to be that there are having committed a criminal act. A FAVORITEthemeoffigures at
few blacks and Hispanics in poli- There are subjects that a person can the center of many political
cymaking positions in his administra get into trouble mentioning at the scandals is that a few events of small
tion. (In a school system in which Koch City Hall these days, and surely consequence were blowngrossly out of
nearly eighty per cent of the children one of them is what happened in 1932. proportion by a self-serving andirre-
are black, Hispanic, or Asian, the In that year, a state legislative com- sponsible press. For many months,
Mayor’s two entirely-on-merit ap- Koch kept saying that nobody had
pointees to the Board of Education are been convicted of any of the charges
Richard Beattie and Robert Wagner, splashed over local front pages—even
Jr., whois also the board’s president. after Lindenauer pleaded guilty,
Both are white; moreover, neither at- which legally constitutes a convic-
tended the city’s public schools, and tion. (“Nobody’s been convicted, no-
neither has children whodid.) In any body’s even been charged,” Patrick
event, if the Mayorhad felt a need to Buchanan, the President’s stalwart
have an Italian-American from White Houseaide, said of that other
Brooklyn in his 1978 cabinet he al- scandal last month.) After the convic-
ready had one: Anthony Vaccarello, tion of the New Haven Four, which
his sanitation commissioner. Meade came as a stunning surprise to manyat
Esposito, the former Democratic boss City Hall—theyhad believed that the
of Brooklyn, whose support helped artful and agile dodger Friedman
elect Koch mayor in 1977—although would surely beat the charges—it was
the two men agreed that Esposito no longer possible to pretend that
would not go public about it, since nothing really bad had happened to
Koch was running on an anti-club- the Koch administration. Here, as in
house ticket—has another explanation Washington, the experts spenta lot of
for Ameruso’s appointment. “I saved time trying to figure out how one di-
him by telling Koch that he’s my saster or another had comeabout. Jack
guy,” he has said. One of the major Valenti, the president of the Motion
casualties of the local corruption scan- Picture Association of America, who
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served as special assistant in the John- suggested, late in November, that, as
son White House, commented last at the White House, Koch press con-
month that the Iran-Nicaragua con- ferences, which tend to be long, ram-
nection had been handled like “Laurel bling affairs, should thenceforth be
and Hardy adventures,” and some of limited to half an hour, after which
the processes of local government, as the dean of City Hall reporters (the
revealed in the trial in New Haven, Mayor apparently felt that he should
sounded also like episodes right out of have veto power over who would serve
a Hal Roach production. This was as dean) would say, possibly after a
surely the only city in which one could signal from Koch, “Thank you, Mr.
read the headlines “IT’s A FINE MESS doin the 18th
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later, in the Post, “ANOTHER FINE played in honor ofhis arrival on the dons—Shakespeare, political philosophy,
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1945,castles and country houses.
having asked for police help after he tions was notlikely to work,sinceitis Participatein this community of scholars;
had locked himself outof his car on the not the press but the Mayor whoobvi- study at the Bodleian Library; live in oneof
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getting out of town to a place where show. But what reason could he give
nobody had heard of Stanley Fried- for cancelling? Late on the night of
man. On December 16th, he would be December 15th, as the Mayor later
in San Diego. For years, Koch has described it, he had a call from the
been in the forefront of those demand- Governor, perhaps as the result of a
ing that the federal government use communication to Cuomo from one of
the full powers of the nation’s armed their mutual political advisers. Koch’s
forces to “interdict” drug runners presence, it seemed, was absolutely es-
crossing the country’s thousands of sential in Albany, where the legisla~
miles of borders and shorelines. One ture was debating new fiscal arrange-
federal officer who lives in the city ments for the state Metropolitan
made sure that he would not soon be Transportation Authority, which, if
invited to Gracie Mansion when he they shouldfail to pass, could require a
suggested privately that the proposal transit-fare increase here. Local sub-
came oddly from someone whoselarge way and bus fares have gone up three
police force cannot interdict drug times since Koch became mayor, and
dealers from four-acre Stuyvesant he had already taken a strongposition
Square park. The plan for Koch’strip against the latest threat. On December
to California was that at dusk on De- 16th, he was in Albany denouncingit
cember 16th he would join San Di- one moretime, andcalling the possible
ego’s Mayor Maureen O’Connor on increase “the single most important
the Mexican border, where she hoped issue since the fiscal crisis” in the
to demonstrate to him that most of the nineteen-seventies. The Times, with
illegal border crossers were not drug whose editors the Mayor continues to
runners but poor people looking for be a favorite (its editorial headed
jobs. The following night, he would “SHAME AND STANLEY FRIEDMAN”on
be a guest on the Johnny Carson the day after the New Haven verdict
show. In its Sunday edition on De- did not mention “the Koch ad-
cember14th, however, the News pub- ministration” or the Mayor—in this
lished a sixteen-page pullout under the case with no subsequent complaint
headline “IT STARTED WITH THE from Koch’s office), obligingly ran a
‘FAT BOYS.’” The subhead of the three-column picture of him confer-
heavily-illustrated article—onepicture ting with Cuomo in the Governor’s
showed Manes at an August, 1985, office before he nipped back home. Any
fund-raiser, posing with a pretty girl day would probably have been suitable
dressed as a parking meter—was “A for his trip; two weeks after the Gov-
Chapter by Chapter Ride Through ernor’s call, the legislature had not yet
the Worst Mess of Corruption Since reached agreement on the M.T.A.
Tweed.” The News had been rou- package. Still, the Mayor had avoided
tinely referring to the Koch City Hall being caught at just the wrong time
as a cesspool of corruption for many guest-starring in the world of enter-
months, a metaphor that U.S. Attor- tainment, a spectacle that some New
ney Giuliani used to good effect with Yorkers have lately found less enter-
the jury in New Haven. In the chap- taining than they used to. Last March,
ter-by-chapter account, written by as a result of the scandals here, a state-
Barbara Ross and Richard Rosen,the city commission, with Columbia Uni-
scandal was laid out in odorousdetail. versity President Michael Sovernas its
A front-page editorial, headed “IT’s chairman, was appointed to consider
TIME TO ACT, MARIO,” urged the what could be done to insure more
Governor to appoint a commission to integrity in government. A week be-
examine corruption in the city, adding fore Christmas, it issued its final re-
that only the Governor could do it. port, which recommended the estab-
(“The Koch administration is part of lishment of a commission with sub-
the problem.”) In Spencer’s preamble poena powersto investigate corruption
to the sixteen-page story, the editor, in this city and state. Asked later about
referring to speculation that Koch— New Yorkers’ response to the year’s
following Jimmy Walker’s example— revelations of what had been going on
might resign, said that rather than do at City Hall, Sovern said, “We were
so, Koch “would lash himself to the surprised and dismayed by thelack of
waterpipes in Gracie Mansion.” The public reaction.” Hesaid also, “We
preamble concluded, “They were cameto believe the public’s apathy rests
stealing us blind, Mayor—your in considerable measure on a wide-
friends.” Clearly, it was not a propi- spread belief that government is so
tious time for Koch to be caughtsniff- rotten that it doesn’t do any goodto do
ing around on the Mexican border or anything aboutit.” —Anpy Logan
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BOOKS
Edmund Wilson
eee Witson working and successful bid against the him in this period as “a writing
was the most threateningsixties. By the luck of in- Roman with his large senatorial head
distinguished man heritance, he was, at this time, able to and thick body, escaping from the Im-
of letters in the jumpat the romantic chanceofrevisit- perial city for rustication.” “Senatori-
querulous Ameri- ing thescenes of his boyhood, when he al” is exactly the word for the Wilson
can thirties and, spent his summers in rural upper New of these years.
indeed, long after. Saturated in wide York State, in the little village of He was often alone at Talcottville.
reading in many languages, scholarly Talcottville. The family house had His beautiful half-German wife,
yet by choice free of the academic gone downhill, but now it has become Elena, who grew up in a multilingual
intrigues of the university, he was his. It is crammed with old-time junk: family, is a woman whoprefers the sea
proud of earning his living by such oddities as spinning wheels; close to their house in Wellfleet. She is
seriously addressing “the common footwarmers made of perforated tin rarely at Talcottville, and is sure she
reader” in periodicals. A man of pith, boxes, whichpeople used in sleighs or has seen a family ghost there, slinking
pungency, and substance, very much carriages; an old footstool (consoling in a doorway. Although Wilson sticks
“in life,” he was sustained by (as Ju- during his attacks of gout); and even a pertinaciously to his solitude and local
lian Symonsoncesaid of him) “strug- historic cuspidor. I say nothing of the gossip, there soon comes a time when
gling to cometo termswith his time.” stuffed birds and old books. The stone heis eager for travel again. He wants
Mellifluous he was not. He was the house is crumbling, and he starts put- to “make his peace” with “hated Eu-
son of a distinguished lawyer, and his ting it to rights. The onetime bo- rope”—it had dragged America into
style in historical and humaninstances hemian sets up as squire, surveying two wars. Now hefinds thecities of
was of a manof thepertinacious cross- what seem to him to be his family acres Europe “attractively built” and, as
examining kind. He loved a dispute. in the surrounding forest and moun- Mr. Edel says, “devoid of American
He could also change his mind when tains. He falls, when he has time, to vulgarities.” And now, Mr. Edel
the hopesof the thirties were deceived. revising oldcritical essays, to planning reports, Wilson ‘“‘asked himself
I still think that “To the Finland Sta- new ventures—“TheScrolls from the whether his old hostility’—and in-
tion”is a masterly, even fervid, exami- Dead Sea” and “Apologies to the deed it was touchy—“hadn’t been ‘un-
nation of the intellectual roots of the Iroquois”—and to the very special consciously’ his ‘determination to
revolutionary hopes in Russia, and the American dutyof recording cousinage make something of America.’ ” ‘This,
most original American historical es- and family history. Leon Edel sees Wilson confides, “must have biased me
say of its time. Al-
though Wilson re-
canted after Stalin
came to power, the
essay stands as a study
of the hopes that men
betrayed.
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like as a man? As I
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was a hospitable
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but no windbag, a cit-
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man with an appetite
for living, eating,
drinking, and loving
women. There was
also a streak of melan-
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were marked, as one
now sees in the diaries
“The Fifties” (Far-
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and have an excellent
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Edel. In these diaries
we find him at the
point of whatis called
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1895), making a hard-
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against what was really good in was drawnto thesly conjurer in his
Europe.” Mr. Edel had chided him friend:
His round blue eyes had big red circles
around them....His hands were quite
a certain anti-British tradition behind astonishing—unlike any I had ever seen:
me.” After all, he was a George instead of being slender and tapering as
one might have expected them to be, the
Washington man. fingers were long and of uniform thickness
Now,on the great journey, London almost like the legs of a spider crab, and
is “wonderful.” He is still touchy, of sharpened at the end as if they were pen-
course. He can’t stomach phrases like cils—it was as if they were very large
“Lords and Commoners,” which the engraver’stools.
class-ridden British regard as histori- His speech? With his morbid ear for
cally rather fine. He hates the class accents, Edmund Wilson writes that
system; can’t bear aristocrats, espe- Max “is very Edwardianstill, and his
cially if they dabble in literature; is way of saying ‘Don’t you know’ would
frosty about the “rudeness” of class seem dated to Angus Wilson, though
manners. (One remembers how much to me it seems perfectly natural—we
he had made of Alice’s Wonderland used to say ‘Don’t you know’ in my
insensitivity to the feelings of the youth.” But did Max package the
mouse whenshebegs it to think that vowels in the once affected English
her cat at heart is really “such a nice manner,and say ““Doncherno”?
soft thing.”) However, if he is anti- Wilson was also drawn to Max by a
British the bond of English literature taste for tricks. Beerbohmsaid that he
is overpowering. He feels especially “Swent on drawing without his think-
that he is an eighteenth-century man. ing aboutit,” and that in his cartoons
He talks of contemporary English of Conrad, in the Old and the Young
writers—Kingsley Amis, Auden, Self series, the accompanying line of
Spender, and others “not quite our text was in a Polish that he had in-
class, dear” (as Edwardian mothers vented and couldstill remember verba-
used to say)—and in Angus Wilson, tim—a magician’s secret triumph!
the author of “Anglo-Saxon Atti- In Paris, Wilson wentto see André
86P68 tudes,” he finds an expert on the Malraux, who imposed the trying
comedies of class accent and a wonder- French habit of “formulation” as in-
ful mimic of eccentric habits of speech. dispensable in educated talk. Interest-
English accents were, and are, so ing, but strain to a “no rules talker,”
regional and mixed that the class test which was Wilson’s style. Wilson was
works only in preposterouscases of la~ unpleasantly disturbed by Jean Genet’s
di-da. Edmund Wilson was always play “Les Bonnes”: the class war
curious about strangely hooted or between mistresses and servants was
peculiar syllables. What did the En- vicious, grisly, and criminal. On to
glish mean when they said “Hm?— Germany and Elena Wilson’s high-
agreement, doubt, or subtle insult? He bourgeois relatives, where talk was
‘was suspicious of the torrential utter- aggressive and in several languages.

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sometimes about simple things. Stay-
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dinner because they were spurred on
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get a rather plain dinner over fast in
order to drink and talk elsewhere was
the natural passion of both the elect
andtheir servitors.
Bythe end of the decade,as he feels
his age, Wilson mellows. He looks
back on old journeys. He loves to col-
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of the past, his memories of all kinds
of friends, great or obscure, always
bringing sometrait to life in the pres-
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souls who bought a Volvo.
It was the perfect family
car. Spartan? Perhaps. But
also very sensible. A Sherman
tank with room for six. Anda
growing reputation for dura-
bility andsafety.
Both of us have come a
long waysincethen.
You,for example, may have
reached thatpointinlife
where you view car not as
anecessity so much asa
reward.
And we have reached a
point where wecancreate a
car like the Volvo 760 Turbo.
A car that surrounds you
with every comfort a person
of means could wantin car.
A turbo-charged phenome-
non capable of embarrassing
cars much more famous for
performance.
Admittedly, the Volvo 760
‘Turbois an indulgence.
But underneath you'll dis-
coverit’still a Volvo.A totally
sensible car with an enviable
reputation for durability and
safety.
A car thatlets you indulge
your senses.
Without taking leave of
yoursense.
VOLVO
A car you canbelievein.

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