"Elsewhere, two brothers risk concussion while whaling on each other with allergenic feather pillows. Overweight layabouts, lacking touch-screen iPods and headphones, jockey for airtime with their deafening transistor radios. And one of those radios plays a late-’60s news report—something about a 'senior American official' and 'two billion in credit over the next five years'—that conjures a bleak economic climate, with war debt and stagflation in the offing.
"The old 'Sesame Street' is not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for softies born since 1998, when the chipper 'Elmo’s World' started. Anyone who considers bull markets normal, extracurricular activities sacrosanct and New York a tidy, governable place—well, the original 'Sesame Street' might hurt your feelings."
Virginia Heffernan in The New York Times Magazine watches the first season of Sesame Street on DVD. (And it seems as if it were made by Martin Scorsese.)
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