Word: classier
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Cronkite for President! I'll vote for that. Younger than Reagan, smarter than Carter and classier than Kennedy, Walter Cronkite outflanks the whole field in all respects...
...books, for which we are most grateful [Dec. 10]. Your reviewer makes one unfortunate comment when he refers to Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in the boxed edition as having "spines of imitation leather" and suggests that "real cloth would have been classier." The fact is that the spines of these books are indeed genuine leather...
...great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston Du C. de Vere (Abrams; 2323 pages; $225), is of high quality on the inside with gemlike tip-ins, though a touch tacky on the outside with spines of imitation leather. Real cloth would have been classier...
...events of the past six months have not helped things. John Havlicek retired, and in so doing, stripped away the last vestiges of a classier era. Bill Walton uncovered Nixonesque medical practices in Portland and was brave enough to make them public. And in case you forgot, the Washington Bullets defeated the Seattle Supersonics with a best-forgotten cast of characters for the league championship...
...Hyams did not push himself harder, for Capricorn One could be better. If the film had a few fewer plot holes, a bit more narrative depth and far less signposting dialogue, it might even have been a space-age Manchurian Candidate. A classier cast would also have helped. Gould, Holbrook and Waterston are all in fine, easygoing form, but Brolin and Simpson are useless heroes: they are not big enough stars or good enough actors to make us care about their fates...