Word: oneself
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...made Sunday night's endless Emmy Awards show even longer by thanking everyone except passersby. But they omitted gratitude to two raffish institutions that have boosted nearly every career in Tinseltown: the entertainment industry's West Coast-based daily newspapers, Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Vaunting oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude...
...Philadelphia when the owners see money to be made in newer cities. Players show up in the uniform of last week's enemy. But to remain a baseball fan, one must drop a light green scrim of nostalgia across such details, the necessary treacheries. One must give oneself over to the illusion, the precisions and geometries and statistics and characters and lore of the game. In his autocratic passion, Steinbrenner, alas, exaggerates the worst traits of modern baseball: its crassness and faithlessness and shallow nastiness. He will not collaborate in the illusion, a form of American mysticism, really, that...
...really want to get even, get a lawyer. Despite that standard advice against representing oneself in court, Mia Lancaster could find no lawyer whom she thought willing and able to press her charges against her former boyfriend. So she argued her own case. A Manhattan jury was impressed: it awarded her more than $1 million, which, so far as court house buffs could recall, seemed to be the largest damages ever won by someone representing himself...
...suits and classic dresses could be worn from one year to the next, reflecting Balmain's wish to be timeless rather than trendy, elegant rather than eclectic. "In this heady adventure," he once said of designing, "the most difficult thing is not to be extravagant, but to strip oneself down and know when to stop.'' His only excesses were his sumptuous ball gowns. Creator in 1953 of Jolie Madame perfume, Balmain worked from his hospital bed on his final collection, which will be on the Paris runways July...
...often happens, the gifts one chooses for oneself can be too costly. Incensed taxpayers fired off 20,000 letters of protest, calling the tax break a backdoor pay raise on members' salaries of $60,662.50. Agreed Congressman Lawrence DeNardis of Connecticut: "It was outright legislative fraud and deceit...