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...idiom of contemporary Manhattan and ancillary Fairfield County. Smith has a great marble mausoleum under construction, air-conditioned, flood-and earthquake-proof. Smith moodily lurks there from time to time. The ghosts are of the contemporary autobiographical kind-Smith's own spectral guilty memories acquired in a posh Jesuit prep school. The furies are represented by the Press. Evil is represented by the abandoned power-bitch wife whose cold heart can never be touched by the grace of love, but there are others to offer it in all its forms...
...manifesto is "a test of our discipleship," said the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York. "Do we or do we not mean business? We must decide what is more important: a posh organ in the church, or literature in Africa, where the sands are running...
...five sets were sent up, one for each room. Their usual breakfast order was ham 'n' eggs, with oatmeal for the children (Caroline, 6, and Albert, 5). When supplies ran short, Princess Grace herself would traipse off to a nearby grocery. The night she attended a posh art show, Daddy went to the circus-and the youngsters stayed home nursing colds...
Once every two years American Airlines takes over a posh hotel and holds a banquet for its Kiwis, appropriately named for the New Zealand bird that cannot fly. American's Kiwis are former stewardesses who quit to marry or retired gracefully at 32, the age at which American now grounds its girls. Not all of American's stewardesses want to turn into Kiwis. Last week seven blue-suited American stewardesses, all approaching 32 or past it, sparked a labor dispute by insisting that a girl's wings should not be clipped because of age. "Do I look...
...build apartments, military housing or industrial parks in seven states. The Murchisons' two potentially most profitable projects are New Orleans East, a plant site and residential development that covers one-third of the total area of the city of New Orleans, and Tierra Verde, an 800-acre posh residential complex now being built near St. Petersburg, Fla. In both cases the Murchisons bought swampy land cheaply, are draining it and selling it for fat profits; an acre in New Orleans East for which they paid $300 now goes for $21,600. The brothers have learned that it is easier...