[niteowl77]

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

That passage makes me want to pick up a copy and read it again. Many years ago, I was listening to some other design majors earnestly discussing how art students were superior to all other forms of life, when one particularly artsy-fartsy jerk went off on a tirade about how wrong this Tom Wolfe guy was; I started reading and began marveling about how RIGHT this Tom Wolfe guy was!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

"From Bauhaus to Our House" is one of my favorite short Wolfe works, in addition to his scathingly satirical critique of abstract expressionism-and its the even less aesthetically pleasing successor movements known as conceptualism and minimalism-The Painted Word.

Now that he's become an acclaimed novelist people seem to have forgotten that he was the pioneer-and aside from Joan Didion, probably the only halfway readable practitioner of this craft-of New Journalism.

Some of his best work was done as a young tabloid journalist/essayist.

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)