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...best, Metropolitan is a clever comedy of manners in the best Austen tradition. Characters accuse each other of being "public transportation snobs." They coin terms like "urban haute bourgeoisie" to describe themselves. They ponder the lengthy duration of preppy adolesence, and play bridge...
WHILE you ponder the semantic distinctions between your three choices, you are treated to the Cliff's Notes of touch-tone phone messages...
...children take delight in things that grownups find gross? While most adults just sit and ponder this question, a few entrepreneurs cannily exploit it. Just in time for the back-to-school season, for example, is Spit-Wads, a synthetic "tossing dough." The sticky substance, thrown by hand rather than propelled through a straw, was invented by oil-refinery worker Ted Skup. "We got the idea at lunchtime. We were talking about the Pet Rock and things we could sell about $20 million worth of, and it just popped into my head." Skup and a partner started IQCO Inc., which...
Jean-Louis Dumas won't sit still. He wants you to feel the sleeve of his cashmere jacket, listen to the ping of his crystal goblet, ponder the intricate pattern of his silk tie. He wants you to follow him out a side door of his elegant office and down a back staircase to a craftsman's workshop virtually unchanged since the 19th century. All the while, he is rhapsodizing, "This is amazing! This is unique! This is fantastique!" In the workshop, with a view across the roofs of Paris, a leatherworker hand-stitches one of four golf bags ordered...
...NUNN His speech on using the military to solve the "national security threat" of an endangered environment sounded like a campaign kickoff, and he said last week he plans to ponder a presidential...