Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston bar patron: Hey pal, didya read Mike Barnicle the other day in the Globe? He says that "anybody interested in Ted Kennedy's political plans merely has to pay attention to the guy's weight," because he slims down before elections and then blows up again right afterward. Set me up again, and not that lite stuff...
...Patron: Right you are. Like Barnicle says, "When Teddy is at McDonald's, you can watch the numbers change on the sign." Or how about, "You know where he stands: there's a dent in the ground," and-listen to this one-"Watching Ted Kennedy get out of a chair is like watching the Russians get out of Afghanistan...
...official with the most knowledge about nukes is dead set against limiting them. Richard Perle, the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, is more than capable of waging four more years of guerilla warfare against any plan for accomodation with the Soviets. Unless he and his patron, the Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38, can be forced from office, moderates in the Administration will scarcely have time to think of possible agreements, because they will be too busy lobbing mortar over the Potomac...
...18th birthday, Gaultier landed a job with Cardin, for whom he designed a 1974 collection destined for the American market. He sets the same kind of creative atmosphere that he found at his former patron's, where "everything was permitted." Most of his small staff are just out of lycee and brimming with ideas; others are friends of long standing; none is over 32. Gaultier may be an iconoclast, but he has a deep and sometimes surprising respect for other designers. One would expect him to "adore" Vivienne Westwood, the earth mother of punk fashion. But Gaultier also "adores...
Vishnevskaya joined the Bolshoi Theater in 1952 when Stalin still acted as the opera's imperial patron. Millions of rubles were spent on the opulent sets and costumes for spectacles like Prince Igor and Boris Godunov. Seated in a heavily guarded box, Stalin reveled in the gilt-and-rhinestone production numbers as he munched on hard-boiled eggs. He had no knowledge of music. Once at an intermission he summoned to his loge the distinguished Bolshoi conductor Samuil Samosud and told him strongly that the performance "is lacking flats." Samosud had the wit to reply: "Good, Comrade Stalin. Thank...