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...come down to than New York. If I could have only one, I would take it at the Open," he says. "I'll forget about the three others this year if I beat him in New York." It's a great venue for Agassi. Planes from La Guardia zoom overhead, patrons are ready to rumble. In one of sport's ripe ironies, tennis fans in Polo sweatsuits, sustained by $10-a-slice quiche, scream bloody murder in support of their idea of a working-class hero--formerly John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, now Agassi. Back when Agassi had hair...
...plateau of permanent prosperity"--sound familiar? The men who wrote about business were either hacks in eyeshades or dandy dilettantes who looked like escapees from The Great Gatsby--or crooks. A couple of Journal columnists planted their bylines above stories prewritten by corporate flacks; crusading Congressman Fiorello La Guardia exposed them by producing the canceled checks that the writers had accepted...
DIED. JEROME WEIDMAN, 85, novelist and playwright who depicted Big Apple archetypes from fast-talking garmentos to frenetic politicians; in New York City. His works include the musical Fiorello!, about Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize...
...prototypical mayor-as-character from the past was Fiorello La Guardia, who was a symbol of the warmth and ebullience associated with New York Italians. Mayor Giuliani has said that he models himself on La Guardia. This must strike many New Yorkers as the equivalent of Kenneth Starr's saying that early in his life he decided to adopt the style and wit of John F. Kennedy: something got lost in the translation. (Those who believe in a just and vengeful God, as Starr apparently does, must have felt the heavens rumble when, around the time the Office...
Giuliani, who may be the only Italian in the Greater New York area with no trace of personal charm, cannot be imagined in La Guardia's most memorable mayor-as-character role--reading the funnies to the city's children during a newspaper strike. We can picture him instead lecturing children about wasting their time on funnies or maybe even arresting them for reading the funnies. We can picture him saying those who disagree with him on the funnies issue are irredeemably corrupt human beings...