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Preppy fashion and the Reagan ascendancy have joined forces: Satin is out of the closet, fears of runaway sympathy for the poor locked in. But changing times have led to a new problem more the some still than the eternal defense against the resentment of the envious masses: long sufference of their attempts at familiarity and imitation. Groton-bred Robert A. Humphreville '80, office manager of the Hasty Pudding Club, has lost none of his preppy aplomb in the face of this nouveau nuisance. "I find it slightly tiresome that people who come from different backgrounds compensate by dressing...
...admit, there is no sawdust on the floor of Manhattan's Café Carlyle, where he has been singing and playing the piano for the past 13 years. And, yes, he always works in a dinner jacket tailored on Savile Row-one of ten that hang in his closet. Still, he is quite certain that he is, was and always has been a saloon singer. But then, for all anyone knows, the Queen Elizabeth II may think of herself as a rowboat...
...been told before, but never so thoroughly. In the beginning, there was luck. A Liverpool performance attracted the interest of Brian Epstein, a wealthy young record-store owner and an agonized closet homosexual. Although drawn to what he saw onstage, Epstein sensed that the world was not waiting for four sweaty boys in leather suits. After talking himself on board as their manager, Epstein literally cleaned up their act. Next came timing. The British press and public were growing weary of the Profumo scandal and its sleazy aftershocks; what was needed was a little innocent fun. The newly fluffed...
...grey light sifting in through high windows, toward classrooms and small studies. There was mahogany and cracked, reddish leather. The floor creaked grandly as we moved slowly around corners, fully expecting the current generation of the hereditary janitor class of the realm to leap out from a closet and drive us off with flailing push brooms. Every room seemed to have a fireplace, and we wondered what it would have been like to fall asleep in an over-stuffed armchair, Milton on your lap and a monogrammed tie around your neck. We were wearing Converse basketball sneakers. We were ashamed...
attention to quality and name-brand identification. Says she: "We took sex out of the closet, put my name on it, and sold it openly and without apology. We take pride in what we're doing." Beate Uhse has become to German pornography what Colonel Sanders was to American fried chicken...