Word: humoristic
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...state with no income tax-that have made happy, settled residents of such literary luminaries as Playwright Arthur Miller, 61; Journalist Theodore H. White, 66, and his wife, Historian Beatrice K. Hofstadter; Novelist and Poet Robert Penn Warren, 76, and his wife, Writer Eleanor Clark; Author William Styron, 56; Humorist Peter De Vries, 62; Writer Harrison Salisbury, 73; and Novelist Philip Roth, 49. Agghhh, the newly passed unincorporated business tax, a temporary, two-year, 5% levy on unincorporated businesses in Connecticut that gross more than $50,000 a year and net $15,000. The tax hits writers directly, as well...
After having almost everything go their way for the past decade, the 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were faced last week with a long list of things going against them: plunging oil prices, oversupplies, excessive production, drooping consumption, world recession with fears of depression. Even Humorist Art Buchwald was having fun with OPEC's woes. The columnist "quotes" a man from Qatar as saying: "Since the oil glut we've had to cancel four palaces, and make do with three used 747s for our sheiks...
...ordinary. At 39, he lives in St. Paul, not far from where he grew up, and although he has taken note of East Coast sophistication to the extent of sending most of these pieces to The New Yorker, he is firmly in place as a gifted regional humorist...
...some oenophiles, champagne seems a frivolous drink, a pleasant apéritif but unsuitable for consumption throughout a meal. Says Humorist Art Buchwald: "It tastes as though my foot's asleep." Yet, inevitably, the noble, pale gold fluid, its nose-wrinkling bubbles and the sense of care and occasion that accompanies it will always make the wine more of a celebration than a tipple. As they say in the Napa Valley these days, Santé! Bonne...
Initially under siege from the reactionary tennis establishment, critics accused the fledgling racquet, which boasts a 40-per-cent greater hitting area than its traditional counter-part, of being illegal, Political humorist, Art Buchwald, an avid tennis fan, recalls his personal "humiliation" and "suffering" when he first brandished it against Washington politicos. "I went through a terrible period... my opponents were screaming bloody murder, accusing me of cheating." While most of Washington officialdom are now converts, rumor has it that president Reagan doesn't play the game because he hasn't figured out where to hitch his horse...