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...course, everything gets checked out, and the process is arguably a healthy one that eventually separates the truth from the bullshit. But only eventually. In the meantime, even the fact that rumors are going around can become a story. Over pate and wine on the press plane (these ain't the scruffy boys on the bus anymore), you hear that Marilyn Quayle is sick. You call a couple Republican Party officials who heard Dan Quayle might be dropped. Bingo. Come filing time, you can write a fresh story...
...Hotel Cheyenne's Chuckwagon Cafe, which has antlers in all of its decorating, plastic horseshoes hold the condiments, and nailed to the wall is a dinner bell shaped in a silhouette of Texas. On sale in the Trading Post of the Hotel Santa Fe are tins of pate de bison...
Harvard can harness this prestige-lust with life-sized cardboard cut-outs of its cultural icons. The endless parade of Yardgoers will gladly shell out 10 bucks for pictures of themselves kissing Rudenstine, draping their arms around John Kenneth Galbraith, rubbing Marty Feldstein's bald pate, giving Alan Dershowitz the finger...
...Harriman, one of the wealthiest Americans, is a kind of housemother to the Democratic Party. Megamillion lawyers like Lloyd Cutler, once counsel to President Carter, were a dime or so a dozen. "It's hard to get fire in the belly over health insurance when it's stuffed with pate," quipped the Kennedy...
What could be next? Appropriately enough for an aging boomer generation, the shiny pate is becoming acceptable, even noble. Cheers' Ted Danson has gone public with a hint of skin gleaming through his thinning strands. Television luminaries Charles Kuralt and Joe Garagiola are boldly bald, so who knows? Maybe it will soon be time again for the Yul Brynner look...