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...true spite and malice one must now turn to P.J. O'Rourke, 40, a baby boomer who seems to have teethed on brass knuckles and suckled on bile. He is also one of the funniest writers in America, or anywhere else he may go to satisfy his desperate need to extract humor from folly and chaos...
...asked the bartender for an application; shedisentangled herself from some admiring yuppiecustomers and wandered off to the back. Squeezedin by a couple who were debating whether or notthe brick wall was real, I read the brass plaqueson the bar. For five bucks, which goes to theGlobe Santa Fund, you can put your own three-inchbar plaque next to others with messages like "RickAstley is the Anti-Christ," "Ghosts, I hear yourlaugh in my head" and "Lulu is a bitch...
Under the fluourescent "FLO" of the Florsheim'sShoes sign was the jewellers' beautifully carvedmarble entrance; a tiny door led into a lobby withtwo brass elevators. I wanted Farr Bros., on the8th; the elevator doors opened into a slightlyancient little world completely removed from theglitz eight stories below. There were six or sevenglass and wood doors in the hallway. Next to theelevator, which had bare blue and red bulbs forits up/down signals, was a glass mail chute with abrass-embossed eagle on the slot...
What was startling about the grievances was that they were broadcast on nationwide television for successive nights, accompanied by Gorbachev's ridicule of local Communist Party officials. "What have you been doing about the issues?" Gorbachev asked the local brass during one meeting. "We have been fighting," replied one politician. Retorted Gorbachev: "What kind of battle is it when you have no casualties and you have lost the battle completely...
...progress. Tenacious digging by reporters had turned up no conclusive evidence that rules were broken by his quick admission to the National Guard. The managing editor of his grandfather's newspaper, Wendell Phillippi, had indeed called an old acquaintance, the Guard planning officer, on Quayle's behalf. This old-brass network clearly expedited Quayle's access to a relatively safe haven, but such transactions were common throughout the country during the Viet Nam War. Thousands of other Americans, including Senators Bill Bradley of New Jersey and Don Nickles of Oklahoma, sat out the war in the National Guard or military...