Word: cato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outraged, he caricatures her in his cato-rama as a snobby imbecile. They meet to fence and soon mend fences. Admittedly, Guardino is a palpable charmer and could probably break the social ice at the North Pole. Sporting bar-buddy camaraderie with Sam's poker-playing pals, Bacall romps through One of the Boys. Inexplicably, inevitably, the pair weds, spats, splits and reknits - how old-hat can you hope...
...luxury exists quite comfortably on two incompatible planes of thought. The higher plane is moral. On it luxury is heartily condemned, as indeed it has been heartily condemned throughout history. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon," it says plainly in Matthew. Cato offered a practical note. "Beware of luxury," he told the Romans. "You have conquered the province of Phasis, but never eat any pheasants." And that has been the general line on the subject, spliced here and there with a quibble on what actually constitutes a luxury (Voltaire holding that it is anything above a necessity), or a rare...