Word: nabob
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...brow image that might set it apart from the usual Saturday-morning kiddie fare, the Disney cable-TV channel cast around for a reasonable facsimile of Masterpiece Theater Host Alistair Cooke, 74, to front Mousterpiece Theater, a series of 20 half-hour animated shorts. They found that quintessentially nasal nabob, George Plimpton, 55, already familiar to many a younger viewer not as a writer (Paper Lion) but as the Intellivision pitchman. Beginning next month, Plimpton will settle into a comfy padded chair to lecture his preliterate charges on the finer points of animation in such Disney classics as Steamboat Willie...
...long ago, Charls E. Walker, former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and current nabob of conservative political influence, was elegantly dining near the White House when suddenly he leaned back, exhaled a cloud of smoke from his Montecruz cigar and exclaimed: "Damn, politics is fun again...
...Gees started peddling their demos in the crowded, demanding London scene. They received scant interest until they got a call from a Mr. Stickweed, who turned out to be Robert Stigwood, the pop music nabob. An audition was arranged. Stigwood arrived, late and hung over, and kept his head buried in his arms as the boys gave him their version of Puff (The Magic Dragon). "We started to worry we were making his hangover even worse," Maurice remembers. Finally Stigwood cut them off, mumbled something that sounded complimentary and signed them to a five-year contract. Says Robin: "We realized...
Banished to the loser's bracket, the Crimson then faced Princeton for their second battle of the day. Normally quite peaceful creatures, the Tigers went wild. Minutes into the game a Nassau nabob trashed one of Harvard's own and the war was on--kick in the shins followed punch in the stomach followed smash in the face. Smarting from its earlier loss to Yale, the Crimson wasn't taking things lightly...
JEREMIADS SUCH AS these Newman makes against the state-of-the-union's language are as old as the day Babylonian scholars compiled a text on "Style and Form of Hieroglyphics." Any nabob with alert ears and open eyes can natter negativism about decadence in American, verbal or otherwise. More important than the fact of degeneracy are the reasons behind it. Newman does make a stab at why the American language has become so cheapened. While Watergate was making its contribution, he writes, "a different process has been under way in another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking...