Article: Miami.

Miami.

Joan Didion has written a superlative account of Miami, beginning with what she has been able to ignore.* She ignores her own drama as Gringa in Latinland, a fascination to which she succumbed in Salvador. Beyond one or two cocaine anecdotes, necessary to prove that this is Miami we're talking about, she says nothing further about drugs. Unless she is scratching for ethos, she is indifferent to the new Miami architecture, the nightlife, the weather, the revitalized art deco district, or "Miami Vice.' She overlooks the fact that Miami has been discovered by New York as a place to be seen. She takes no part in the nervous Assimilation Watch--that is, do the ...

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