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...while ignoring your more substantive points. Edwin Newman, a veteran of the NBC news staff, certainly has a wonderful sense of the use--I should say misuse--of language. No one--politician, journalist, president, businessman, baseball coach, restaurateur, taxi driver--emerges unscathed from a seemingly endless catalogue of embarrassing, boorish, pretentious, dangerous and innocuous lapses and errors Newman records from his over 20 years experience in reporting. There is the actress who told him she hoped she wouldn't be an "escapegoat" if her show failed. There is the political organizer who describes elections as "the quadrennial challenge of giving...
...himself. The novel is wholly lighthearted, a sunny absurdity that offers a mocking bow to the author's own worst possibilities, unfollowed bad impulses, and uncracked weak spots. His capering in Russian and French seems more playful than usual, and less pointedly designed to exclude readers so boorish as not to have been born Russian...
DURING ONE of the heavier-handed scenes in Wedding in Blood, Stephane Audran, playing the wife of a boorish and corrupt French politician, appears in her town's library to donate a volume on ethics. The librarian, impressed by the tome's weightiness and its complicated-sounding title, accepts the book and remarks, "It must be very difficult." Audran's precocious little daughter, who understands the surface of things better than any adult character, closes this little lesson on ethics by chiming in with her typically mocking tone, "Oh yes, very difficult...
...Dance of Death is one of the most concentrated visions of unmitigated nastiness ever staged. Edward, a drunken, boorish army captain, lives with his venomous wife Alice in an island fortress off the bleak coast of Sweden. Bills go unpaid, the paint peels, and their children-small wonder-avoid them. They approach their silver wedding anniversary with only an astonished resentment that each could have deprived the other of so much of life...
...speech forays, he often avoids reception lines, and he dislikes the handshaking and political chatter with influential regional politicians who will control many votes at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Moreover, he maintains a close friendship with Frank Sinatra (see PEOPLE), the high-living singer whose boorish conduct at Nixon's Inauguration festivities angered many top Republicans. Agnew and his wife Judy are frequent guests of Sinatra in Palm Springs, Calif. Granting one of his rare interviews, Agnew told the Christian Science Monitor that these visits are not "big partying occasions" and it is not true "that Frank Sinatra...