An ad put out by the pro-Democrat group MoveOn shows a fiftyish man who lost his job to a foreign worker. |
Well he was less doppelganger than fiftyish chubby bloke with wild white hair who wouldn''t have reached the end of Maggie May without attracting Simon Cowell''s buzzer. |
Balzac would have done well here, but I was more indulgent, thinking of things like the impending death of the bourgeoisie, and of pasts these fiftyish people all bore inside. |