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...knew how to savor the good life, and had the money to do it. He was the author of the bestselling The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. He was an avid hunter and fisherman, and a connoisseur of good food, fine wine and thoroughbred women. One evening last week Dr. Herman Tarnower, 69, dined with a few intimates at his secluded, $500,000 estate in exclusive Purchase in Westchester County, 29 miles north of New York City. His guests included Lynne Tryforos, about 40, an attractive blond divorcee who had been his medical assistant for 19 years and, more recently...
...grossest gem, Three's a Crowd (which might well be titled The Divorce Game), wives and secretaries compete to see who knows the most intimate details about the man whom they share. The trouble with Barris' shows, at least from the point of view of a games connoisseur, is their self-consciousness. The bad taste is too rehearsed; Barris winks at his own jokes. Worse, the contestants expect humiliation, indeed court it, and therefore feel pleasure rather than pain when they are made to look ridiculous. That is why Barns' series lack the lifelike excitement of true...
Like many candidate followers, Correspondent Doug Brew, our man with George Bush, has become a connoisseur of campaign airplanes. "They can be a measure of the candidate's progress," he explains. Before Iowa, Brew observes, "Bush was flying commercial airlines with only a few reporters along. Now the press corps numbers up to 20, so Bush has rented a comfortable 28-seat plane." Edward Kennedy, on the other " hand, took off from the Senate floor with a retinue of 60 journalists and a chartered 727. "On the day of the Iowa loss, the jet was grounded for lack...
...real promise Barth holds for the patient reader is not this lie about meaningful associations but the endless cleverness he applies to the stuff of language, his individual words and sentences. At times this connoisseur of puns and multiple entendres can be seen doing proud headstands behind his latest verbal tricks. Without straining too hard or setting his sights on the outrageous, he usually finds just the odd phrasing, the curious reference to spark laughter. He describes Reg Prinz, a movie director filming one of Barth's novels during Letters...
...with signs reading, "Thank you for not smoking. The American Cancer Society." Says Hughes: "Blistering rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden, ostensibly to contemplate nature, but in fact to sneak a cigarette and bury the butt under a shrub." As a veteran connoisseur of art, architecture and antiquity, Hughes learned long ago to treat a monument with respect...