randomWalks

Latter-day versions of Holden still drop out and wig out. But they must face tougher situations than, say, taking a phony to a Broadway matinee or fielding a quasi-pass from a former teacher. And the world they observe is a much more dangerous place. Holden worried about the ducks in Central Park. The eponymous hero of the movie "Igby Goes Down" hears obscenities shouted by uniformed schoolgirls in the park as they clobber each other with hockey sticks.