Word: gentlemanly
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That would be a gentleman named Ben, a deceased international banker, a postwar Jewish refugee from Central Europe who earned a degree from Harvard and eventually entry into New York City's world of high finance. As depicted by Begley, Ben's adopted circle is a meritocracy whose members are as likely to be related by school as by ethnic and family background. Connections are not unimportant. Jack, Ben's best friend and the novel's narrator, is a writer for a weekly newsmagazine, a social credential so marginal that he is also given a Harvard degree, a blood...
...same night, Boston police apprehended an unruly drunkard dressed in gentleman's clothing. When questioned, he admitted to stealing the body, selling it to Harvard Medical School and keeping the clothes for himself...
...downside is that ticket prices were generally higher. Translation: fewer tickets sold. Small wonder, considering such predictable bombs as Far and Away (Cruise with a dreadful Irish accent in 19th century Oklahoma) and Newsies (Disney's appalling revival of the movie-musical) and surprising failures like The Distinguished Gentleman, featuring Eddie Murphy in a tailor- made role as a corrupt Congressman. Apparently his biggest fans won't accept him as anything but a sassy inner-city cop named Axel Foley...
Bush's explanation of why he played Santa Claus with the law in the twilight of his presidency is a vivid demonstration of his mistaken confidence that the American people will believe anything he tells them. (Remember "no new taxes"?) To Bush, the gentleman preppie from Andover and Yale, honesty is not nearly as important as rhetoric. He could say with a straight face, "I am doing what I believe honor, decency and fairness require...
...neatly exposed: Congressmen don't have to chase money with their votes; there's so much around they can cop all they want no matter what their stance on a specific issue. "It's not that bad things happen, although they sometimes do," says Marty Kaplan, The Distinguished Gentleman's screenwriter. "It's that good things don't happen. The real story is that Washington is frozen, and a lot of people are making a killing keeping it that way." Kaplan knows the territory; during the Carter years, he was Walter Mondale's chief speechwriter. Having observed the problem...