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...they can be as opposite as you can imagine." Pike says. "Steven is almost like comic relief. David is Mr Under Control." About Munatones: "They don't come any nicer. Steve's a real gentleman. He is more sensitive and introspective than he is given credit for. He is one of the few people I know who is considerate without thinking about it. He's very organized and willing to do the dirty work. He leads by example...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Steve Munatones and Dave Fasi | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

...friend didn't accept, but the calls kept coming anyway because he couldn't find a way to say no. I was spared from becoming a bridesmaid at their wedding, not because he found a way to deflect his pursuer, but because the calls finally stopped (presumably the gentleman found someone...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: A Post-Feminist Letter to Men | 11/10/1983 | See Source »

...understood too quickly. There are causes for confusion: the contrast between the high-minded explainer of literary culture and the unbuttoned comedian who writes America's most raucously funny novels; the zigzagging from realism to fantasy, political satire to slapstick; and the dual image of the Connecticut country gentleman and the writing drudge whose spiritual home is Kafka's Prague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye, Nathan Zuckerman | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...paid any attention to the dapper, mustachioed gentleman who joined the members of the men-only Friars Club in Manhattan last week at a stag roast for Sid Caesar. By week's end, however, the officers of the 79-year-old male bastion were trying to forget Phillip Downey, better known as Phyllis Oilier, 65. The idea to crash the party came from the loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 31, 1983 | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally been relieved of a tyrannical burden"). It would seem that the only way the old surrealist can shock today's audience is by exposing himself as a discreetly charming gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Martini | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

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