This firework is a life-size teen-ager made of cardboard, holding a beer can in one hand and a cherry bomb in the other, showcasing a wild and reckless perspective on teen culture.
Michael Schulman on Lillian Ross's "The Shit-Kickers of Madison Avenue"
Ross was fifty years into her career at The New Yorker, where she'd helped perfect the form of the Talk of the Town piece, with its cool, friendly eye and its limber, syncopated rhythms.