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...were lower-middle-class oiks," Idle says of himself and most of the other Pythons, noting that only Cleese and Palin had gone to posh public (private) schools. Yet however scraped his circumstances or mean his surroundings, young Eric was not a pouter; he always looked on the bright side of life. And he developed an early facility with language. "I think I was always interested in words because in such a sterile environment you have to create your own entertainment, and explore your own brain.... I was more well read than most teenagers because at boarding school there...
...green, negotiating them over drinks after a game is acceptable. Besides, the fairway offers business golfers the chance to probe an associate's psychological strengths and weaknesses. Does the person blame himself or his caddy for a bad slice into the woods? Is she a club thrower or a pouter? Says Hollis Stacy, 35, who has won more than $1.3 million in Ladies Professional Golf Association tours: "If you find people who cheat at golf, chances are they cheat at life." Sports agent Mark McCormack in his best seller What They Don't Teach - You at Harvard Business School warns...
Green Bay Packers--Named Herb Pouter special teams' coach...
Some regard them as parvenues, pouter pigeons or Gorgons. To Stephen Birmingham, a writer with an affinity for chronicling the vagaries of the rich ("Our Crowd"; The Right People) they are The Grandes Dames, women who ruled society from the 1880s to the eve of World War II. This bemused, anecdotal history follows the parabolas of such great and sometimes terrifying socialites as Bostonian Isabella Gardner. The recipient of letters from Henry James, Emerson and Whittier could have sprung from the pages of Alice in Wonderland. She envied but one person in the world: the Dowager Empress of China "because...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis B. Puller, 73, the legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua...