Elizabeth Tomelleri
From the Transom's Mailbag: Bitter Pills
Dear Ms. Tomelleri,
1. The Reagan funeral. It really did one in. 2. A terrible bed-bound episode of epididymitis at the age of 21. 3. The mandatory federal sentencing guidelines, resulting in monthly ring-ups; "This is a call from a federal corrections facility; to accept, press five." 4. An extreme problem of household entropy; things rotting, smelling, no one there to clean them up, etc. 5. Young New Manhattan's blonde thrusty socialites Tinsley and Topper Mortimer. 6. Expense. 7. A radical 19th-century lack of dental insurance and holes in teeth. 8. Kate Moss bravely picking at a salad at the Ritz in Manhattan last Wednesday afternoon, not noticed. 9. The neighborhood's tenements are built on a swamp and everything just leans so horribly; disorienting in the mornings, especially when both one's arms are totally numb and flappy like nightmare rubber wings. 10. Sam Mendes.
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