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Dorothy Parker quipped her way into minor celebrity, wrote her way into modest immortality and drank herself into near oblivion. All talk and no action, she is not an ideal subject for a movie. But if you must film this life, you'd better do something more than flatly recount the failed promise and failed romances that made it miserable...
...make my own ill-advised investment decisions without the help of my broker, who no doubt has better ideas, I figured I was a great candidate for reimbursement. At least Smith Barney couldn't be accused of paying me off to cover up my broker's mistakes. And whatever modest sum it might choose to advance me would go a long way toward cementing my future loyalty. But spokesman Bob Connor wasn't buying any of this, and Cohen at Mellon said there was no chance that Mellon Bank would pay for my mistakes in the future if I moved...
...Forer's modest proposal drew support from a few child-welfare experts like Joyce Ladner, now acting president of Howard University, and from such conservative social theorists as Charles Murray and James Q. Wilson. "Not all families are worth preserving," Wilson wrote. "And . . . foster care has its own problems. We don't know as much as we should about how well institutional care might function under contemporary conditions." (To which Murray added, "Think of it as 24-hour day care...
...What we have said before when asked about this, especially in the long term, is that it would have a very modest effect," Fitzsimmons said...
...ineffective yo-yo dieting. But outside the White House, a group of marchers criticized Koop for sending a message that overweight people could shape up easily. For his part, Koop says obesity-related conditions are the second leading cause of death in the U.S., after smoking, and that even modest weight loss can help obese people significantly improve their health...