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...CASE YOU'VE never seen him, rest assured that Art Buchwald looks just like you always imagined him. It didn't surprise me at all that when someone pointed him out recently he was short and wearing a rumpled, off-green sports jacket, journalist-gray pants and one of those knit ties cut straight across at the bottom. Chomping on a cigar--unlit, naturally--he was riding the down escalator into a hotel lobby, jabbering at a bunch of other Washington newspapermen. Then came an opportunity for a joke...
Spying a young female acquaintance on the up side, this yukster spun around and shouted, "Haven't seen you at the Vineyard this year! What happened, you have to get married or something?!" The young woman looked a little embarrassed, and Buchwald's friends shook their heads, smiling. "That Art," they were probably thinking, "what a zany guy." Then they all headed for the bar to talk about the Redskins...
...through the glass panes of the Graduate School of Design's (GSD) Gund Hall to reveal Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Carter's former assistant for national security affairs: G. William Miller, Carter's Secretary of the Treasury: Arthur Levitt Jr., chief executive officer of the American Stock Exchange; and Buchwald and Mondale again...
...spoke. Buchwald appeared, along with the inevitable cigar, and Anderson collared him and asked for a joke he could use to open his speech later that evening...
...feel for you John." Buchwald answered. "I'm going home to work on my own. I'll tell you, I wouldn't do work on my own. I'll tell you. I wouldn't do more than ten minutes in that hall-that's as tough a hall as I've ever seen...