Word: cad
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...newcomer felt time-warped, mired in a past age of LP records, the ERA and two-wheel drive. It wasn't the new lingo ("persona," "agenda," "biorhythms"), nor the acronyms ("EIS," "CAD" and "MSG"). It wasn't the commercial wackiness of products like "gourmet dog food." It wasn't even the daily drive-by shootings -- talk about an automotive civilization -- in Los Angeles' gangland. Mayhem is not confined...
...White House went on the offensive as For the Record was published and excerpted in TIME. The strategy was to depict Regan as a cad, astrology as harmless, Nancy as vulnerable and Ronnie as aggrieved. "I was taken aback by the vengefulness of the attack," the First Lady said. "It comes through that Don Regan doesn't really like me." At a lunch with Columnist Carl Rowan, Reagan played the angry husband. "I'll be damned if I just sit by and let them railroad my wife," he said. He noted that Nancy was upset for having caused the furor...
This colorful crew is self-satirizing. Any moralizing comment on their behavior would be superfluous. As for the central triangle (a cad, a cuckold and a tin-hearted tart deluded into thinking she has at last found a grand passion), it is too banal to awaken much emotion. Nor is there any point in using these figures from a remote society for social criticism. No, Radford has done the right thing with his material by observing the exaggerated tonalities of glamour-trash fiction. As a result, White Mischief plays as something a lot of people claim to have been missing...
...black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon's elegantly decapitating style. "He had, or had invented," she writes, "an aristocratic European background, replete with 'von' relatives, a faint 'Continental' accent that slipped when he was angry, forgetting that he was connected to a 'Statspalais' (as he called it) in Vienna...
...defense attempted to depict Isles to the press as a spurned, vindictive woman, not even faithful to the unfaithful Claus. Puccio, admitting that his client had strung Isles along, said that Von Bulow may have been a "cad," but he was not a murderer. Andrea Reynolds, Von Bulow's thrice-married Hungarian-born companion, told the New York Post: "Alexandra is a very pretty girl, but she is not what I call marriage material." Why not, pray tell? "She doesn't seem to be very monogamous, my dear," sniped Reynolds...