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...entrepreneur. Like many rookie proprietors, actor Paul Newman and his sidekick, the writer A.E. Hotchner, had a good product (the actor's homemade salad dressing) but lacked the experience to launch it in the hotly contested world of packaged goods. In this excerpt from the forthcoming Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; $22.95), the two recount their experiences in trying to get a business off the ground...
...them, so that the unique zesty taste of the dressing when we mixed it in Paul's kitchen would be duplicated in the bottle. It didn't help that Paul was in front of the camera somewhere or other or that Hotch was busy with some theater or literary pursuit. When Andy informed us that he was giving up on us, it meant we had to start all over again, disheartened but still determined to make it work...
...recent punch event at the opulent Newport home of an alum. The boys arrived at the home in ghetto-fab style, Cristal poppin’ in three stretch Navigators and two pimpin’ tour buses. The boys left in mere ghetto style with the Newport police in hot pursuit after one of the drivers discovered a pool of urine in his limo and then tipped off the police to underage drinking...
...This tale of a monster emerging from the human mind and the international pursuit of a crumbling manuscript closely follows the canons of the 19th century Gothic novel. Yet Carey does right not to belabor his debt to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which haunts every page. Carey unfolds his plot in a Chinese-box construction of narration within narration, focusing mostly on Chubb's telling his story to Wode-Douglass in a hotel bar in K.L. It's a convention straight out of a Regency-era chiller: the aged friar revealing the horrid skeletons in the abbey closet...
...called “dark horse” in tomorrow’s city council election, DeBergalis has been no stranger this election season to Mather House—or to the Yard or MIT frats, for that matter—in pursuit of student voters, a typically-neglected segment of the electorate that he targets as his core constituency...