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From a down-and-outer in Central America to a neurotic glandular case from New York, everyone seems to have their own answer to the Big Questions of Life. And so after wading through the varied and conflicting Weltanschauungen described above, the reader may be tempted to appeal to some sort of higher authority. As continual creator of this column, Dewitt has the advantage of having existed everywhere since the dawn of time (not to mention to added plus of owning a fantastic collection of Maurice Chevalier records). So what does this eternal sage think of life, love, death...
Drinkers are cutting down on quantity and going for quality, a shift that is nowhere clearer than in the wine industry. While consumption grew only slightly, sales jumped from $6.2 billion in 1980 to $8.2 billion last year. "Wine has history, romance and a lot of glandular stuff," says Terrance Clancy, president of Napa Valley's Calloway Vineyards. "Eighty-three means something different than '82. I haven't heard of many people going to gin- tasting courses...
...have become Kabuki rituals: popping zits, snapping towels in the locker room, dancing in the streets, ogling the girls in the shower, getting crazy drunk and tearing up the strip in a "borrowed" Porsche and grossing out Mom and Dad. Sentient adults must unite to cry: Enough already! The glandular convulsions of adolescence are just not interesting or complex enough to sustain the plots of half a hundred Hollywood films each year...
...driven maverick Neuharth; they find evidence even in the office suites of USA Today, which are decorated in black, white and gray, the only colors Neuharth wears in public. Says one Gannett insider: "It's Al's ego trip." Responds Neuharth: "The decision was not glandular, it was aided by research. And we will keep going only as long as we think we have a chance to succeed...
...rebaptized with a few drinks, a pizza, and a shower." Disdaining the private eye's code of resisting advances by female suspects, Warlock goes on an erotic tear. Mrs. Rabun, an art gallery owner, lures him with cocaine, and her friend Laura Fardel offers the glandular and empathetic hick a wealth of kinks. Rabun's son, far from being the homosexual his father said he was, is a tough fishing guide who nearly leaves a spluttering Lundgren for the sharks...