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...guessing about who will succeed Kadar is Budapest's premier parlor game, encouraged by Kadar himself, who like any astute manager knows that prematurely designating a successor causes nothing but trouble for both boss and heir. Karoly Nemeth, 63, is his second in command in the party hierarchy and presumably a contender, though Kadar slyly enjoys appearances that deceive. Other possible candidates: Ferenc Havasi, 57, a chief economic official, who is said to believe that unemployment should be officially recognized; Karoly Grosz, 57, a Kadar disciple; Propaganda Boss Janos Berecz, 57; and Foreign Affairs Specialist Matyas Szuros...
...remembers. "No shoes, no socks. The curtain wasn't all the way down, and just before we were about to begin, I heard my mother say, 'I think those are his feet.' " Still, it was not until after a stint as "Mr. Danny" in his sister Angie's beauty parlor ("I once did 35 heads on a New Year's Eve") that he enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to study makeup and picked up acting, fencing and mime as well. The response of DeVito's father to the news of this career move came as a shock...
Black Mask's early contributors rejected the class-conscious plots and genteel style of the British school of crime writing. "Hammett gave murder back to the people who commit it," said Chandler, who found the details of British mysteries as unexciting as "spillikins in the parlor." Hammett's early hero, the Continental Op, is a nameless abstraction of the hard-boiled ethic: "I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection...
While some of the council rounded up stray reps, a half dozen ventured into Harvard Square, searching for something far more important than parliamentary legitimacy: an ice cream parlor with a short line. To no avail. Emack and Bolio's, Herrell's, Baskin Robbin's, and Brigham's all had mile-long queues. And by the time the bunch arrived at Store 24, there were only four minutes remaining in the recess, so the group returned to Emerson 105 empty-handed and out of breath...
Dobrynin has been in every classy parlor in Georgetown. He probably knows as many key Cabinet officers, committee chairmen, bankers, industrialists, journalists and other assorted U.S. power brokers as anyone in the city. Dobrynin has soared across the nation in the private jets of capitalists, put down a buck or two at the Kentucky Derby, poked around the Alaskan pipeline, biked in blue jeans with his granddaughter, and assaulted a Big Mac with a gusto rivaling that of the Chicago Bears' William ("the Refrigerator") Perry...