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...annual "best-dressed men" list last week, the winners included sequin-studded Rock Star Elton John, football's O.J. Simpson and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who was cited for "his impeccable choice of garments and his manner of wearing them." President Ford had to settle for a quick cuff from the tailors. Said the guild: "He simply hasn...
...protagonist is an extraordinarily appealing little boy named David (Jeffrey Lynas). Struggling for possession of his young mind are his father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...
...Huskies wasted little time in building a lead, as they struck for three goals in the first half. Radcliffe's Maude Wood, who plays the newly-created position of right link (that's right, the position is right link, as in cuff links), got one of the goals back for Radcliffe before the half, but a two-goal deficit was the closest that the 'Cliffe would come...
...born 49 years ago in New York City and now living in a large Georgian house on a 180-acre cattle farm in Ireland. There is more than a touch of stately grandiloquence to the Donleavy prose, with its Latinate preferences and its "My-dear-sir!" bursts of lace-cuff-shooting mock elegance. But what the cadenced prose does is to set up the reader for the moment when Donleavy belches out his violent, scurrilous message: life, taken all in all, is obscene-the ultimate four-letter word...
...belief that he could reach a wider audience by forcing each spectator to create his own setting from his imagination and his own personal experience, a more authentic reality thereby resulting. University was Wilder's goal, as he made clear near the conclusion of his off-the-cuff talk to 15,000 people at Harvard's 1951 graduation (at the end of which President Conant called Wilder's remarks "the most significant I have ever heard from an academic man on a commencement program"). Wilder stated: "All literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce...