Word: piffler
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...habit of chattering on the Tonight show and of lunching with the glossy wives of moneyed men diminished his serious reputation as it increased his notoriety. He began to take on the appearance of a piffler, a court jester to such rich beauties as Babe Paley, wife of longtime CBS Chairman William Paley, and Slim Keith, wife of British Financier Lord Keith. Clarke comments that Capote looked upon the stylish rich "the way the Greeks looked upon their gods, with mingled awe and envy." To amuse these friends, he invented a game called International Daisy Chain, in which the point...
What is left when the scenery stops falling? Well, the book can be seen to be an enormous, lavender metaphor: Leonard is soul, Victor is body, opposed in unnatural self-division. The most pompous piffler since Colin Wilson takes 376 pages to plumb this irrelevancy to its wuthering depths. One vote for Mailer...
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