Word: fops
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...angelic wife ("I don't want happiness, I want you"), Platonov intermittently toys with a flighty young female scientist, fights off the amorous intentions of a beautiful widow, and rekindles an old college flame. Meanwhile the widow collects an entourage consisting of a lecherous old landowner, his Paris-educated fop of a son, a weasling Jewish merchant, and a brash horse thief named Ossip. Platonov's brother-in-law, a boozing doctor, and the widow's childish stepson, husband of Platonov's mistress, complete the menagerie...
Valentino's two friends, Scandal the misanthrope and Tattle the fop, are presented by Messrs. Rawson and Schmidt. Mr. Rawson has been dressed up to look like the Merry Monarch, but he sounds like Chris Rawson, which is somehow wrong. Mr. Schmidt postures very fastidiously...
...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. The first complete edition of one of England's greatest wits reveals depths of wisdom in a man so often caricatured as a fop...
...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. This first complete, un-bowdlerized collection of letters reveals Wilde as someone far more profound than the talented fop of his own caricature...
...bins of the Midwest. So do debutantes, university students, even a refugee from an Eastern girl's-school choir. Everywhere, there are bearded fop singers and clean-cut dilettantes. There are gifted amateurs and serious musicians New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis Denver and San Francisco all have shoals of tiny coffee shops, all loud with basic sound-a pinched and studied wail that is intended to suggest flinty hills or clumpy prairies...