That's what this fat bitch likes about...
That's what this fat bitch likes about everythingI hate her guts!"
"FineHate her all you want," he said, "but not for something she hasn't doneShe didn't do it, DawnYou are driving yourself crazy with something that cannot be true
And it wasn't trueIt wasn't Marcia who had taken Merry inMarcia was all talk--always had been: senseless, ostentatious talk, words with the sole purpose of scandalously exhibiting themselves, uncompromising, quarrelsome words expressing little more than Marcia's intellectual vanity and her odd belief that all her posturing added up to an independent mindIt was Sheila Salzman who'd taken Merry in, the Morristown speech therapist, the pretty, kindly, soft-spoken young woman who for a while had given Merry so much hope and confidence, the teacher who chloe paddington handbag provided Merry all those "strategies" to outwit her impediment and replaced Audrey Hepburn as her heroineIn the months when Dawn was on sedatives and was in and out of the hospital; in the months before Sheila and the Swede would back off from ignoring the whole responsible orientation of their lives; in the months before these two well-ordered, well-behaved people could bring themselves to stop endangering their precious stability, Sheila Salzman had been Swede Levov's mistress, the first and lastA most un-Swede-like acquisition, incongruous, implausible, even ridiculous"Mistress" does not quite make sense in the untarnished context of that life--and yet, for the four months after Merry disappeared, that is what Sheila was to him
At dinner the conversation was about Watergate and about borse gucci Deep ThroatExcept for the Swede's parents and the Orcutts, everybody at the table had been to see the X-rated movie starring a young porno actress named Linda LovelaceThe picture was no longer playing only in the adult houses but had become a sensation in neighborhood theaters all over JerseyWhat surprised him, Shelly Salzman was saying, was that the electorate who overwhelmingly chose as president and vice president Republican politicians hypocritically pretending to deep moral piety should make a hit out of a movie that so graphically caricatured acts of oral sex
"Maybe it's not the same people," said Dawn, "who are going to the movie
"It's McGovernites?" Marcia Umanoff asked her
"At this table it is," answered Dawn, already inflamed at the outset of dinner by this woman she could prada borse not bear
"Please," said the Swede's father, "what these two things have got to do with each other is a mystery to meI don't know why you people pay good money to go to that trash in the first placeIt's pure trash--am I right, Counselor?" He looked to Barry for support
"It's a kind of trash," Barry said
"Then why do you let it into your lives?"
"It leaks in, MrLevov," Bill Orcutt said to him pleasantly, "whether we like it or notWhatever is out there leaks inIt's not the same out there anymore, in case you haven't heardI come from the late city of NewarkI heard more than I want to hearLook, the Irish ran the city, the Italians ran the city, now let the colored run the cityI got nothing against thatIt's the colored people's turn to reach into the till? I wasn't born yesterdayIn omega speedmaster day-date Newark corruption is the name of the gameWhat is new, number one, is race; number two, taxesAdd that to the corruption, there's your problemSeven dollars and seventy-six centsThat is the tax rate in the city of NewarkI don't care how big you are or how small you are, I'm here to tell you that you cannot run a business with those kind of taxesGeneral Electric already moved out in 1953GE, Westinghouse, Breyer's down on Raymond Boulevard, Celluloid, all left the cityEveryone of them big employers, and before the riots, before the racial hatred, they got outRace is just the icing on the cakeStreets aren't cleanedBurned-out cars nobody takes awayPeople in abandoned buildingsFires in abandoned buildingsSchooling nonexistentOn every street corner dropoutsDropouts doing nothingDrop-outs dealing chanel cc logo earrings drug