Word: harlow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wasserstein sometimes elicits pity when she is reaching for empathy. In "Jean Harlow's Wedding Night," she describes arranging a trip to Paris to be there at the same time as a banker she has been dating, then his trying to sneak off in the morning without saying goodbye. He tells her he is involved with someone else. She slips into near hysteria, making jokes (she says they are funny) about the waiter, the croissants, the plates, the Ayatullah. They part, but she calls him later in the day to have dinner at a "hilariously hip restaurant." Of course...