he might use that. pretty right encapsulation
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It’s a more manageable-for-him version of Buddy Cianci’s lyrical: “The toe you stepped on yesterday may be attached to the ass you have to kiss today.”
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no but grew up in southern New England and wrote about Ciancihttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/09/02/can-you-forgive-him-buddy-cianci …
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hah. Yeah, I lived in Providence from 92 to the beginning of 98. So Buddy's second reign. For a few years I actually lived on Benefit St like a hundred yards down from the Mayor's mansion.
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im starting in yr piece here, just a bit in and it captures it, crookery not withstanding he was a great mayor. when i showed up in 92 it was still in pretty iffy shape. lots of the stores downtown still boarded up. But mostly transformed by the end of the decade.
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Geoffrey Wolff has a good novel called Providence (1985) that really captures the seedy, run-down hoodlum-dominated old Providence.
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Caught the tail of that. Mob dominated by with little wealth left to fight over, Brahmin-types and university on College Hill, an archipelago of ethic neighborhoods around the city. Made for an amazingly rich food town. But also pretty bleak and ruthless.
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Yeah, the Woolf novel gets into most of that -- it's a social portrait in the form of a (low-level) crime story. A good read if you want to remember the era.
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