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...father said, "I don't know what's happening, Jerry. Too much of this is in French." Actually, "en garde "is part of the universal language. The man was really bewildered by a melee onstage, which caused a row of black ties to depart. "Ladies and gentlemen," said Pierre Baston, the bilingual commentator, "the directorat technique is now adjourning to decide the point. I must warn you that such decisions have been known to take hours. I would make myself comfortable...
...wedding reception in Toronto, the guests become obsessed with recalling gallows-humor stories about a Kostelec hangman who forced condemned prisoners to shave, and shave again until the blood trickled from their chins as they mustered to face their doom. Then he would shout: "Back to your cells, gentlemen. The execution is postponed...
Instead in his new Lords Ladies and Gentlemen. Daniel reveals some of the lighter moments of his extensive, eventful career from his meetings with kings to his hobnobbing with presidents. The book can justly be criticized for an excess of fluttery, for dwelling on the transient rather than the substantial Daniel doesn't care. He says there has been a "surfeit" of overly serious books. "The world is not waiting for my opinions," he adds. "But, I've met a lot of interesting people and in the process have acquired humorous stories--some revealing and some devastating. I just didn...
MOST KIDS know the feeling that from walking into a candy shop and being taken by the multitude of sweets. The immediate impulse is to scurry out and tell your friends all about it. One gets much the same feeling from reading Lords Ladies and Gentlemen, the memoirs of Clifton Daniel. Daniel acts the adult equivalent of the kid in the candy shop as a name dropper of the first order...
...coverage of the Bay of Pigs--he hints at greater depth, only to pull back to describe an encounter with yet another celebrity. Still, only perhaps a Talmudic scholar could fail to enjoy the breezy gossip about the rich and famous that Daniel serves up throughout Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. As he has forthrightly stated, "I'm not trying to prove anything, but just trying to give people a bit of pleasure...