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...The news from Poland broke like a sharp ray of light through our grim skies....
...The Great Gatsby’s narrator Nick Carraway was a bond salesman and Sherman McCoy in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities traded them....
...What is it that makes the gewgaws of Tom Wolfe’s 1980s “social X-rays” resonate both with the times and a new generation? It isn’t just the fun factor....
...— Henry D Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois...
...Earlier this year, hedge fund magnate Ray Dalio admitted that he and his team at Bridgewater Associates were “dumb shits” when it came to pandemics....
...“The rate dynamics came in a little soft,” said Stephen Chuback, analyst at Wolfe Research, “implying pressure on revenue for banks like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo.”...
...described as “social X-rays”, and created by designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Emanuel Ungaro and Christian Lacroix to “compensate for the concupiscence missing from their juiceless ribs and atrophied...
...Nor, really, did “social X-ray” or “flak catcher”. John Updike saw him as a cartoonist, whose books contained everything but realistic, middle-of-the-road people....
...Rather, it was Wolfe’s better-than-ever dazzling and irreverent Back to Blood published in 2012. Set in Miami, it is a hilariously shocking multisensory X-ray of the US’s hottest melting pot....
...Wolfe, who does stray into wearing shades such as eau de nil and navy, cautions against informality and creeping casualisation....
...John Ray, the creative director of Dunhill, has just given me a copy of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe....
...It was a catwalk of anorexic skinnyscrapers by the equivalents of haute-couture designers — the built manifestations of Tom Wolfe’s “social X-rays”....
...Tom Wolfe coined the term “Social X-ray” to describe the wealthy Upper East Side wives of investment bankers, women who were impossibly thin and impossibly wealthy....
...Others simply do what they are good at – Galerie 1900-2000 from Paris brings Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia; Chemould from Mumbai brings Shilpa Gupta and Jitish Kallat....
...In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe succeeded in getting his audience to laugh at, then cry with, his little friends, but in the end we were mostly laughing....
...He hired one of the toughest and most respected men in US law enforcement, Ray Kelly, as his police commissioner....
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