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Barrett, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of several nonfiction books, is adept at the mechanics of the novel. His dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...
...political genius and a military leader of the first order. But we cannot accept the praise you lavish on a man who was guilty of so many crimes against humanity...
...demanding unions in the old urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...
Doing her best to paint Moynihan as a Nixonite in Democratic clothing, Abzug stresses her six years in Congress. She quotes the often lavish praise of colleagues and pulls out a survey showing that she is regarded as one of the most effective members of the House. Following a schedule that would tax the stamina of a Sherpa, she has the advantage of instant recognition. Her floppy, broad-brimmed hat signaling her arrival, she evokes gasps and squeals wherever she goes. "I may not look like a Senator," she likes to say, "but I think I'm what...
...most lavish affair was thrown by Candy Tycoon Charles H. Price II and his wife Carol, whose own fortune is based on holdings in Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block...