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...from keeping its neighbor’s bordello hours, but that’s part of the charm. Would you rather read in an elegant memorial to the Titanic or in a concrete Crock-Pot named for a man who called Benito Mussolini “a very upstanding chap...
...disappointed with the government, they're not disappointed with him." Fiona Sherlock, just 18 and looking forward to voting for the first time, is happy to have met a hero at the checkout. "I'm not much on Fianna Fáil, but Bertie is a grand chap. He's one of us." That sense of ownership is evident everywhere as members of the public, young and old, lean into the double-handed shake of the man they all call Bertie. Some pols "use security as an umbrella" to avoid contact with their electorates, says Ahern. "I'd go bonkers...
...attend. In charge of catering, the ladies want to check on numbers and whether Frank would prefer sandwiches or sausage rolls as the morning tea's centerpiece. Though Taylor can be of little help on either count, the ladies like their local guardian very much. "A very nice chap ... a down-to-earth man," they chorus. "Everyone speaks highly...
...gentleman under suspicion is Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), a moneyed chap who is polite to the point of blandness--the white bread of the English upper crust. Through a device too silly to be mentioned here, he comes to the attention of Sondra Pransky (Johansson), an American college student abroad. She believes Peter may be the infamous Tarot Card Killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Her co-sleuth is Sid Waterman (Allen), a not-so-hot magician who masquerades as her oil-rich father...
...Farrar was succeeded by Will Weng, and then by Eugene Maleska, a New York City school teacher. I remember being pleased to read of Maleska's accession, for I knew his name as a Dell puzzle constructor. But Maleska was a conservative chap, a one-man Academie Francaise of English. He seemed to believe that the language had frozen decades before. Cultural references tended toward opera trivia and the novels of long-dead white males...