Word: puckishness
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...much for Ingraham and Lefkowitz. Guests at the Doral received a pointed set of rules aimed at Renaissance's p.c. caste. No. 1 was "No group hugs." Nos. 6 and 7 encouraged the wearing of furs and the use of chlorofluorocarbon sprays. Some arrivals could not take the puckish hint that this was a time for public-policy grinds to blow off steam, but others fell right into the outlaw spirit. "I always smoked when I was pregnant," announced G. Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks at the bar cheered...
Timothy Leary is not going gentle into the good night; he's going downright cheerfully. The puckish former Harvard psychologist and lsd fan has inoperable prostate cancer and told the L.A. Times he was thrilled when he found out: "How you die is the most important thing you ever do. I've been waiting for this for years...
...three-hour dinner ended at 1 a.m. Cigars were offered, but Castro, who stopped smoking several years ago, abstained. Throughout the evening, Castro displayed a puckish sense of humor, a fondness for martinis, and a willingness to discuss any topic, no matter how controversial. But despite Castro's openness as a dinner host, there remained something deeply intractable about the man. ``At his core, there was no flinching from what he had always believed, in terms of the virtues of the revolution and the virtues of communism,'' says Gaines. ``However much you might disagree with that, there's something admirable...
...sculpture remains dramatic for black artists no less than for whites. At one extreme are easily accessible depictions of black life, such as printmaker Varnette Honeywood's realistic portrayals of African women, which the Huxtables of TV's Cosby hung on their walls. At the other extreme are the puckish conceptual works of such younger figures as Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim and of David Hammons, their artistic godfather. Hammons, 51, paints or uses found objects to create pieces that raise unsettling questions about the significance of race. For example, after his 16-ft. by 14-ft. portrait...
...Atlanta. "A Faulkner for just plain folks" was how one publisher characterized Grizzard, who made hay of everyday angst and irritation in a syndicated column and 14 books -- not to mention on speaking tours and sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...