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...that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication. Evolution itself is a process of rising above one's origins and one's station." The writer Sébastien Chamfort located what is surely the ultimate snob, a nameless French gentleman: "A fanatical social climber, observing that all round the Palace of Versailles it stank of urine, told his tenants and servants to come and make water round his château...
...group agree. Guitarist Andy Summers: "Sting is the most consummate writer of pop songs in the group, so we wind up doing more of his songs than anybody else's." Copeland: "The only thing I envy is Sting's voice and his songwriting ability." The gentleman in question: 'I'm the best songwriter. It's as simple as that...
...many in the television industry do. CBS's Harry Reasoner was among the few who tried to put things in perspective, cautioning, "I don't think Frank would like to be pictured as the last of a vanishing breed." But, he quickly added, "What he was was a gentleman--and there are not many of those in any profession...
...most Miamians know, it would be a mistake to dismiss McMullan simply as the town grouch. Renowned though he is for his cantankerousness, McMullan maintains the charm, the manner and the vocabulary of a gentleman, even as now, in retirement, he drives to break 80 on the golf course and master his new IBM Personal Computer, a staff going-away gift. With a similar determination to preserve integrity in private and public, he insisted that the suicide in 1976 of his daughter, a psychiatric nurse, be fully reported in the Herald. Both the paper's staff and knowledgeable professional...
With good roles for black actors something of a rarity, Lou Gossett, 47, is being offered just about every part that isn't suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military...