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...without license plates, with all four doors open. A man was pushing a woman into the front. Then all the doors closed at once. The car drove off, followed by another. Next day, a doorman explained that such things often happened. Drunks got disorderly in the area's posh nightclubs, he said, and had to be taken away by police...
Nolen acknowledges that his fellow doctors gave him unusually cordial treatment-possibly, one young resident slyly suggested, because he might write another book. But his special status and posh private room ($154 a day) did not protect him from "screwups." Several times wrong pills were delivered; a blood test meant for him was taken from the patient next door. Once a nurse even forgot to hook up the crucial heart monitor. Nolen's advice to patients: keep aware of the number and variety of prescribed pills, ask why X rays are being ordered and demand explanations of everything...
Ochs's songs were best appreciated at large demonstrations. They didn't lend themself easily to the privatistic world of posh living rooms and expensive stereo systems. His music was meant to be experienced immediately, communally. At their best, his songs could move audiences to anger, love, and hope...
Then the final indignity. His chartered airplane, replete with chandelier and elegant trappings from its days in the service of Mexico's President Luis Echeverria, had been sold without warning. His harried staff chartered a venerable DC-3, hardly posh, and at last his battered entourage trooped aboard-his Secret Service detail, two aides, a contingent of growling press, and his brightly resilient wife Ella. It may be the jet age for everybody else, but for the Udall campaign it was four hours from Buffalo to Milwaukee, a flight not aided by head winds, the ministrations of a glum...
Dracula has many guises: bat, wolf and now, Truman Capote. Or so it would seem from the vibes caused by his short story in Esquire last November. Titled La Côte Basque, 1965 and taken from his unpublished novel Answered Prayers, the piece focused on a posh Manhattan restaurant and its haul monde clientele. For his cast, Capote chose some old acquaintances, including Jacqueline Onassis and Sister Lee Rodziwill, former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as several other real people thinly cloaked in fictitious names. The author likened his gossipy story to a "minor...