“ A 40 year resident of the Upper East Side, Elaine Gifford, said, ‘I sympathize with [the demonstrators], but wish they would class it up a bit! All this racket with the drums… I can’t take it seriously! It’s just obnoxious.’ Her husband, Tom, paused with his walker and chirped, ‘Elaine, did you see the one who just went by with her tits out?’
(Surprisingly not an excerpt from The Bonfire of the Vanities) James Thilman. “Occupy Wall Street Marches Against Millionaires On Park Ave.” Gothamist, October 11, 2011.
(Notes on) Panic & Plentitude
--Castiglia and Castronovo, A "Hive of Subtlety": Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Criticism
