January 19, 2007
It’s not aspirational; it’s “pay less.” I mean, the aspiration is that you save money. But that’s a negative now, for them.
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January 19, 2007
It’s not aspirational; it’s “pay less.” I mean, the aspiration is that you save money. But that’s a negative now, for them.
She spits into the bucket at her corner—”Don’t stand near the bucket!” someone says—raises a glove to dip Vaseline from the blob of it on top of the corner post, rubs the glove into her nose and cheeks, to help the other’s punches slide off. “Kitch-die-muh hsshoo?” “What?” I say, suddenly panicked. “Oh!” I lean over to tie her shoe.
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November 22, 2004
Bentley claims our attention with the more or less tacit premise that she has transgressed custom, morality.