Volume 48, Number 2 · February 8, 2001
Caught in the Curve
By Benjamin DeMott
Hooking Up
by Tom Wolfe
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 293 pp., $25.00
The title piece in Tom Wolfe's latest collection looks back jeeringly, from a not very distant tomorrow, on today's American costumes, affluence, and linguistic, intellectual, and sexual behavior. There's an account of the life of the 'average electrician, air-conditioning mechanic, or burglar-alarm repairman'—'a life that would have made the Sun King blink':
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