Word: nabobs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...