The Great American Saloon Series/Paradise in Brooklyn
Brookhiser, Richard
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...If you had the commis- are mob stimulations: transient, collecthe Paradise, and kindred night spots...
...Sion for eyeliner, you'd be rich...
...trons have escaped...
...I don't own a car...
...Many of the regulars, particular- of the rock group, fight for the right whose story I must tell here, or it will ( i 4 041,4'4‘ 1 _ 3 ly those in middle or later years, look to party...
...not get told...
...First order )), t*"-'.4 ,), ^ subsides, and celebrating kinship at home—or, as that great roisterer of business was to find a Chinese lawn- ' ' at, Vo' groups range and rearrange themselves knew, to be happy at your favorite dry...
...A cab would cost too much, a Though it sits on a gray seashore in it's not)—and those are just the ap- netically...
...When the tions of individuals, couples, families...
...Men tive, anonymous...
...The masses servile...
...damaging yourself...
...You worker's paradise so many of its pa-' ,..„..., , i people go to Ellis Island to contemplate needed a breather anyway...
...This flesh, encouraged by tyrants to keep the of New York's largest borough...
...J PARADISE IN BROOKLYN by Richard Brookhiser Idon't know the address of the Para- the melting pot...
...vi 7- hen you're not drinking or eat- I kiss you once, you kiss me twice...
...Many of the latter found glasses full, or it will knock you back...
...The last time I That's how I know it's paradise...
...I only know the dise suggests Miami Beach: the sign in these, they bring on the entrees (don't caught one phrase, Ach, Odessa!, be-general location—Brooklyn, thither- the street is blue, white, and pink neon, ask me what, I'd stopped caring...
...4..- club, I've heard a pair of young than-- car of our friend the Turkish cabbie...
...But give a party is a coherent, and worthy, ti c 0 born in Shanghai...
...What the tubes, bypassing the palate entire- time, it was gratifyingly echt...
...Lily too is a Russian Jew, as if they have eaten here regularly...
...In another ing about three, and rolled home in the National Review...
...You can good...
...The Paradise is an apwas run by the same man who had / ic e i. a'"' I graphers, while waiters tote enormous propriate symbolic alternative to the done their laundry in Shanghai...
...Manhattan and Russia, somewhat order just about anything to drink, on don't stint...
...Turned out the neighborhood spot , t...
...dumplings, mushrooms, shrimp (glatt "Karma Chameleon," probably phothere...
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...Hence of hellfire...
...Occasionally the turbulence said Samuel Johnson, is to be happy their last move, to Queens...
...it, ' =,:Viitlik.* Then the hilarity resumes...
...44 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR DECEMBER 1988...
...I'll take the outer arrive is heaped—bread, fish, tongue, teuses in mylar minidresses singing dise, since I've only been driven boroughs...
...When the red tide they are as light-footed as nymphs and program...
...Some went to Israel, some back by the glassful (not too many was becoming too Amerikanski...
...i in complex permutations for photo- night spot...
...Rather, it offers parThe last time I went—I've been three But the main form of excess here is often come tieless, so as to show their ties, or a collection of parties: celebratimes in four years, which is about not drink, though it flows like the golden chains and chest hair...
...Some 1.-- ,...1 bouquets in and out of the picture...
...closer to Russia...
...Is it sides the lyrics of the theme song of the most Brooklyn, half-way between inside the colors run to rose...
...Once you've made a dent in It was mostly pop, mostly Russian...
...The table when you music starts, be prepared to take a back I would not, say, in the idiotic words —there was in our party a woman - - seat...
...subway would take too long, and I a cold climate, the decor of the Para- petizers...
...But to fight for the right to...
...what you need to recover between visits Dnestr, but food...
...We "Bread and circuses" is a devil came here...
...Not particularly, but look, they Paradise, which are done in English...
...The end of good government, swept through China, her family made 1.= Is"'" rti, 4. satyrs...
...The quali- My wife and I left Lily there party^-7 , Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of 4k i ty of the music is variable...
...up to champagne (many tables do) but When I'm with you, it's paradise The Paradise is an artifact of the the drink of this house is vodka, which No place on earth could be so nice...
...seventies, when the masters of the should be taken in the following way...
...pennies to the trick-or-treaters of tle in for half an hour, and knock it had come, I worried that the Paradise detente...
...This band was pretty good...
...scramble to find the best, then pout phrase we use for indulgences of the their way to the Brighton Beach section The point is to send it straight down when others share our good taste...
...Soviet Union were doling out Jews like Ask for an ice bucket, plunge the bot- V V ing, you dance...
...There is plenty of bread they didn't find were places to eat and ly, so that it tastes like a snowball made Paradise is the last redoubt of the at the Paradise, but no circuses, which drink and dance to their liking...
...You'll hardly know you're beehive hairdo...
Vol. 21 • December 1988 • No. 12
