In yesterday’s New York Times Book Review, the reviewer of Paulina Porizkova’s new memoir noted that the book has a number of “clunky, drawn-out metaphors” but cites one exception: the former model’s analysis of the start of her love affair with the rock star Ric Ocasek. Porizkova compares it to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. “At 19, I watched Ric roll into my life in his tank,” she apparently writes, “and I greeted him with flowers and cheers.”
I seem to recall the Soviets getting a very different reception in the country.
