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Even the stuffy dining rooms in Boston's most WASPy clubs allow them.
The film follows a collection of teen-agers from different ethnic and economic backgrounds (ranging from WASPy country-clubbers to middle-class Jews to blacks who have recently been integrated via forced busing) as they mix in 1954 Baltimore.
A Lauren clone (read: "khakis") at the outset, he identified an underserved fashion niche--urban black America, which was drawn to Lauren's WASPy abstractions but alienated by their overstated inaccessibility.
If I sound sour compared with other critics, it's because I think Levinson missed a chance to get something unique and audacious on screen: the story of a thin-skinned Jewish kid who'd grow up to make autobiographical movies that somehow leave out the Jewishness and then get so enraged by a critic's offhand projection of Jewishness into a big WASPy sci-fi picture that he vows to go back and remake his other films with Jews instead of gentiles.