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...loon might just as well have been re-christened Elaine's. A minor New York City official in Mayor Lindsay's administration named John Scanlon appears as the bartender, and Dan Greenburg, author of How to Be a Jewish Mother, plays the editor of the Tomb stone Epitaph. They stand out like two polo players at a rodeo...
...after Boulanger shot himself over his mistress's fresh grave, his former political patron, Georges Clemenceau, produced a suitably cruel epitaph. "Boulanger," sneered the Tiger, "died, as he had lived, like a subaltern." Now, in the first complete biography of Boulanger, English Historian and Musicologist James Harding offers to set the record straight. Sexual infatuation as well as drugs, he concedes, played a part in the general's rise and fall. Poor and provincial, Boulanger was wounded six times in battle before becoming a general in the French army at the comparatively young age of 42. The last...
...legion of loyal admirers; they bought his records and his autobiography, and won new converts to the cult. Among the faithful there were some who admired not only the thrust of his satire but the drama implicit in his life. Critic Albert Goldman delivered a healthily skeptical Brucian epitaph...
...large supporting cast includes "mrs. Cunk," who sells "fake blisters at the World's Fair," Cardinal Spellman, Sherlock Holmes and Shirley Temple. The pages are liberally sprinkled with obscure metaphors and allusions to E.E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Shakespeare and Rabelais, scraps of song lyrics, even a self-composed epitaph: "here lies bob dylan demolished by Vienna politeness . . . bob dylan -killed by a discarded Oedipus...
...country's foremost military historian, he became a matchless armchair general and indeed, as pioneer advocate of fast-moving armored columns, a teacher of generals. Liddell Hart worked on this history for a quarter-century; he died last year while correcting proofs. Quite literally, it is his epitaph, and an appropriate one. For along with a crisp style, skill and precision, it carries the anachronistic imprint of a boy who grew up loving games and came to view war as the most fascinating game...