honky-tonk lagoon

"debutante"
Today's NYT: "By that time she had become a kind of legend and the debate had polarized: Arbus as a compassionate champion of the neglected versus Arbus as exploitative, a narcissist of morbid eloquence. Or as Susan Sontag infamously put it, the photographer of "a single village": "only, as it happens the idiot village is America."