AUTHOR WOLFE MAKES REALISTIC COMMENTS ON THE TIMES.(DAILY BREAK)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: January 24, 1998 | Copyright information

Byline: Larry Maddry

ABOVE THE barbaric bustle of bedrock Manhattan, author Tom Wolfe surveys the world from his apartment window with shoulders hunched, hands behind his back, stonily surveying the mean streets below like a gargoyle in a white suit.

Ah, the white suit, redolent of Cyrano's white plume. An effete armor of civility against the sullied masses: sharpsters, hipsters, muggers, panhandlers, swindlers, poseurs. In short, le tout monde of placard-toting, muck-hustling, race-baiting, stock-trading, character-trashing rabble.

It was 1:30 in the afternoon and ...

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