{"id":111019,"date":"2017-05-19T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=111019"},"modified":"2017-05-19T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T13:22:22","slug":"your-car-will-look-cooler-in-forty-years-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/your-car-will-look-cooler-in-forty-years-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Car Will Look Cooler in Forty Years, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_111020\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/langdonclay08-1080x722.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111020\" class=\"wp-image-111020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/langdonclay08-1080x722.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/langdonclay08-1080x722.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/langdonclay08-1080x722-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/langdonclay08-1080x722-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/langdonclay08-1080x722-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-111020\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Langdon Clay, via Hyperallergic<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have car in New York now. The alternate-side parking, the potholes, the increasingly dimpled bumpers: it\u2019s all worth it, because my car could be a celebrity in this town. It\u2019s a 2003 Camry, so the odds are against it, I know, but if I could show you how I beam with pride, seeing it sit there on the street, all covered in bird shit and pollen\u2014it just seems like a place where a car is meant to be. And even as it depreciates, its value as an aesthetic object will only rise with age. In the seventies, the photographer Langdon Clay roamed the city by night, taking photos of cars all by their lonesome. Today, his photographs seem like evidence of some lost civilization. \u201cIt was photography of the street itself. One car. One background. So simple. Night became its own color,\u201d Clay writes in an essay introducing a new collection of the pictures, <em>Cars: New York City, 1974\u20131976.<\/em> Luc Sante adds, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/379850\/langdon-clay-cars-of-the-night\/\">They rule the night, those Pintos and Chargers and Gremlins and Checkers and Galaxie 500s and Fairlanes and Sables and Rivieras and LeSabres and Eldorados<\/a> \u2026 They unashamedly flaunt their dents, their rust spots, their mismatched doors, their liberal applications of Bondo, their repairs effected with masking tape\u2014but then some of them revel in Butch Wax jobs like you don\u2019t see anymore, gleaming like the twilight\u2019s last sigh.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jason Horowitz is on the scene in Naples, where a frantic casting call for children in underway. The potential gig: HBO\u2019s adaptation of Ferrante\u2019s <em>My Brilliant Friend<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/18\/world\/europe\/a-casting-call-in-naples-lets-children-dream-if-for-a-day.html?module=WatchingPortal&amp;region=c-column-middle-span-region&amp;pgType=Homepage&amp;action=click&amp;mediaId=thumb_square&amp;state=standard&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;version=internal&amp;contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&amp;contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F05%2F18%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fa-casting-call-in-naples-lets-children-dream-if-for-a-day.html&amp;eventName=Watching-article-click&amp;_r=0\">Producers are looking for amateur child actors\u2014two sets of girls in eight- and fifteen-year-old iterations, and then a large <em>Annie<\/em>-esque supporting cast of hard-knock lifers<\/a>. The result is an open casting call that has already drawn five thousand children, the vast majority of whom have never heard of Elena Ferrante, and injected a mix of hysteria and hope into parts of Naples that are poor in resources but rich in real characters. Enzo Valinotti\u2014a fifty-seven-year-old shoemaker who reminisced about the days, nearly a century ago, when Tot\u00f2, one of Italy\u2019s most iconic actors, lived in the neighborhood\u2014leaned out his ground-floor window and said of the children flooding the street, \u2018They are all so happy.\u2019 \u2026 \u2018Look at my son. He is so beautiful,\u2019 said Anna Arrivolo, forty-three, who grabbed her child\u2019s pudgy face and stroked his gelled hair. \u2018He didn\u2019t want to do it. I wanted him to.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ellen Friedell remembers the surreal experience of interviewing the Watergate burglars in 1972, when she was a twenty-three-year-old law student and they were just hoping to score bail: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/ellen-friedell\/not-the-usual-suspects\/\">A typical criminal defendant in Washington DC was young and black \u2026 The Watergate burglars\u2014there were five of them\u2014weren\u2019t young or black, and hadn\u2019t tested positive for heroin or cocaine<\/a>. All of that made them unusual but what really made them stand out was that they were wearing suits \u2026 I was used to defendants who tried to seem cool, or who would joke with me, but I always thought it was bravado and that they were really quite scared. I felt sorry for them. The Watergate burglars were unusual in this respect, too. One of them, James McCord, wasn\u2019t at all flustered. I liked him. He referred to the D.C. jail as the \u2018concrete condominium\u2019 and described himself as some kind of security consultant. My father was in the Foreign Service, and we knew people who worked for the CIA. McCord reminded me of them. I asked if he worked for \u2018the Company\u2019. He smiled. The Watergate burglars were all granted bail.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Duncan Kelly embarks on a daunting journey through Michel Foucault\u2019s oeuvre: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/foucault-investigates\/\">Taken as a whole, reading Foucault from start to finish is like reading the major works of Henry James consecutively as self-conscious historical fictions<\/a>. It is a mildly disconcerting experience, seeing conscious evolutions and experiments in style; baroque, ornate, urgent, dyspeptic; the repetitions and modalities at various points and the stylized categorizations and oppositions\u2014prudes and perverts, monsters and insanity, measures and tests, inquiries and examinations, bodies and boys, punishment, pleasure, asceticism, suicide; the going back over old themes in new ways; how the old becomes new but how the new can never entirely disown the old; the desire for both fidelity in the evocation of moods and worlds, but not necessarily strict historical accuracy, whatever that might in the end be taken to mean; and the desire to write all this up somehow as a history of the present.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two of the most weaselly words in the English language: <i>I misspoke<\/i>. A correspondent for <em>The Economist <\/em>writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/books-and-arts\/21721897-among-many-excuses-public-figures-make-when-they-screw-up-i-misspoke-among?fsrc=scn\/tw\/te\/bl\/ed\/imisspokeaweasellyphrase\">Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist, distinguishes two kinds of speech mistakes<\/a>: \u2018typos\u2019 and \u2018thinkos.\u2019 Typos are ubiquitous and listeners hardly notice many of them. Thinkos go deeper; they betray that the speaker might actually not know something. If someone says the capital of Italy is Florence, that\u2019s probably a true thinko, unless the person is an expert in Italy who just happened to be thinking about a forthcoming holiday in Florence. But when people are caught in a thinko, they are often tempted by the \u2018misspoke\u2019 explanation\u2014it\u2019s hard to prove them wrong, after all, if they say they knew the right thing but just accidentally said the wrong one. It could happen to anybody.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: the cars of NYC get their due forty years later; an Elena Ferrante casting call draws tons of kids; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[25023,28865,10484,28863,28864,13206,2029,28866,5832,687,13353,454,7931,9729,28388,124,3161,100,12699,13356,17060],"class_list":["post-111019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-automobiles","tag-burglars","tag-cars","tag-cars-new-york-city","tag-casting","tag-elena-ferrante","tag-hbo","tag-i-misspoke","tag-langdon-clay","tag-language","tag-lawyers","tag-luc-sante","tag-lying","tag-michel-foucault","tag-my-brilliant-friend","tag-new-york","tag-photographs","tag-photography","tag-the-seventies","tag-typos","tag-watergate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In the Seventies, Langdon Clay Photographed New York\u2019s Cars at Night<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news: the cars of NYC get their due forty years later; 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