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...murder mystery is written," he explains. "My stories sometimes read as if ((LBO king)) Henry Kravis were approaching with an ax instead of a buyout offer." Burrough may have hit the peak of fascination with 1980s whodunits. As the 1990s wear on, his agent Andrew Wylie says with literary disdain, readers are likely to become more interested in advice books on "how to stave off disaster...
...mercurial jazz trumpeter, famous for playing short sets with his back turned toward high-paying crowds, has found a new way of showing disdain for audiences. Rather than speaking into the microphone to identify various soloists, Davis simply holds up placards bearing their names...
...among the 500 students in the class of 1994. "This is ridiculous," scoffs an athletically built freshman standing to one side of the mayhem. "My parents are spending $20,000 a year for this?" Moments later, he is engrossed in a finger-painting version of charades, his haughty disdain replaced by keen concentration as he tries to make his teammates guess what he is drawing...
Cheney also deplored Dugan's arrogant assumption that the Army and Navy would be relegated to secondary roles as the Air Force won the war all by itself, and what the defense chief saw as Dugan's misplaced disdain for Iraqi military capability. Without any hesitation, Cheney picked up the phone and got President Bush's approval for firing Dugan. In yet further evidence of how he runs the Pentagon, the Defense Secretary's next call was to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, advising--but not asking--him of the decision to fire Dugan. National Security Adviser Brent...
Enter John Silber, president of Boston University, a Reaganite Democrat who has long advertised his disdain for Dukakis. Silber tossed off offensive remarks -- toward bureaucrats, the elderly, feminists, ghetto residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at a moment when voters hungered for nothing but. In the end, his laser lip earned him the same anti-politician cachet that has propelled the cowboy campaign of Clayton Williams, the Republican candidate for Governor in Silber's native state of Texas. Silber, like Williams, is viewed as a populist...