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jbor wrote:
> 
>     They liked to chain-smoke while they worked and to have two
>     or three television sets, tuned to different channels, going
>     at the same time, plus rock and roll, the more acid-oriented
>     the better, on the radio, thus cutting and splicing in an
>     environment you could call rhythmic. (197.6)
> 
> Perhaps an argument could be made that the Pisk sisters are deliberately
> subverting the medium with this sort of overkill, but it's a long bow ....

Wonder if they smoked Kools. Boisterously off to a bomb making commune
after a career in the land make-believe. Che is there hero, you know.
Gotta love these girls, but it's no wonder poor Prairie can't relate.
Cool that she got to see those old movies ...  I mean the girl's old man
can't ever afford a new VCR. Che is her best girl pal. Ain't exactly a
drive down to Mexico, scarfs flapping in the blue, top down, on the run
...


> 
> Or is it the contention of our "warm and neighborly" (!) New Yorkers that
> all working class teenage gals from the Bronx back in the '60s were
> accustomed to having three tvs around the place as they honed their
> filmmaking craft with their own movie cameras and editing machines and
> Movieolas?
> 
> Note also that it's the narrator who describes Ditzah as the "food kvetch"
> (196.23), and that *then* we're given the example of her, well, kvetching.
> Not surprising, I guess, that she's the one who ended up in the muu muu.


And a microwave to cook them frozen cheese danish.