Word: coronae
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...Nancy's conspicuous consumption and the President's Wednesday afternoon horseback-riding, to the Stockman safety net and the Weinberger window of vulnerability. On the cover of his latest book, Laid Back in Washington, Buchwald relaxes on a Lafayette Park bench, the White House in the distance, a Smith-Corona portable in front of him. the clothes have changed temporarily to Reaganesque cowboy duds, but it's the same old Art, grinning slyly from somewhere within the folds of his paunchy face...
...when his father died, Bishop spent the requiem Mass watching an altar boy. "He almost made it to the end. Then the palm of his hand came up to his mouth. He yawned." Just one of death's little ironies, the kind that Bishop ran through his Smith-Corona portable for such bestsellers as The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1955), The Day Christ Died (1957), The Day Kennedy Was Shot...
...having outlived even his Smith-Corona, Bishop lives contentedly in Florida. "I had a glassy, superficial style and a seasoned touch for saying a lot in a few words," he says of his life's work. He is too modest. Bishop had strong legs, a sharp eye and, perhaps his greatest gift, a keen appreciation for fate's small amusements. The day Jim Bishop dies, keep an eye on the altar boy. -By Donald Morrison
...whole process is strange. Even the mechanical act is strange-hand takes up Bic or hovers over the Smith-Corona, while the inner voice, heaving between aggressiveness and trepidation, murmurs with all the subtle power of an orator on trial. But no one is there. First one addresses a letter to someone not present, then proceeds to praise, cajole, implore, indict, belittle or seduce the absentee, whom he greets as "dear" and to whom he finally pledges his devoted sincerity. Between the formalities he wants something, but it is not an immediate response. He knows that there will be none...
...meetings drag on, property values come up again and again. A former board of education chairman rises to lament that without "quality schools" only a rich Arab with a harem would want to buy his oversized colonial; a marketing vice president for Smith Corona asserts that home values are directly tied to school quality, and urges the town not to "take a meat ax to the best asset the town...