Word: gentlemenly
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...young, she is single, and she moved to Manhattan to find success, love and happiness in the big city. You might say she is a cosmopolitan girl, but as it turns out, she is actually the Gentlemen's Quarterly type. This month the GQ editors named Maria Cuomo, 23, one of the 20 most eligible and "unalterably ideal ladies" on either coast of the U.S. "It's great fun," says the New York Governor's daughter, who was delighted to be chosen along with the likes of Singer-Actress Michelle Phillips and MTV Video Jockey Nina Blackwood. Cuomo...
...machines." Kids make instant clusters, constructs of their bodies. In a cluster one girl cries; another spanks her; a boy rocks on the floor as he clings to the second girl's leg; another boy pulls that boy's foot. "Too easy," Julie shouts. "Take your risks, ladies and gentlemen. Family machines." A girl begins, "Gimme," and continues repeating the word as at the start of a roundelay. A boy chips in "No," and continues to say "No." Second boy: "It's mine." Second girl: "Will you stop whining?" Third boy: "Shut up." The family machine roars. Applause, whistles, whoops...
...about a rich matriarch and her four temperamental children. The Dorns have left Europe (perhaps Germany in the early '30s) to establish a manufacturing business in London. They prosper, even though the elder Dorn dies prematurely and leaves Wife Sofka to turn Alfred, Frederick, Mimi and Betty into proper gentlemen and ladies. But there is only so much a mother can do. Alfred is a somber bibliophile destined to run the business and refute the opening line of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ("It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune...
...women's basketball team and beat out 22 other women Globetrotter contenders. She will debut when the team begins its 60th- anniversary tour in Australia this week. So far, the new guard reports, breaking the sex barrier has brought no penalties from the men, who have behaved like "gentlemen." What, those jokers...
...himself but for his Pekingese, Sun Yat-sen, and an Egyptian dragoman he was bringing home on a whim. Benjamin Guggenheim changed into evening clothes for the occasion, and so did his valet. "We've dressed in our best," Guggenheim said, "and are prepared to go down like gentlemen...