Word: raffishly
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...Soong Dynasty is a raffish account of how the East was conquered, it is no less a tale of how the West was won. The Soongs, Seagrave contends, knew exactly how to beguile America, one day with images of the mysterious East, the next with snapshots of God-fearing, Westernized democrats battling the Red Menace. While Harvard-educated T.V. wheedled millions out of his poker buddies in Washington, Wellesley Graduate May-ling wooed Congress with her slit skirt and florid rhetoric. In the process, the Soongs also hypnotized such powerful cheerleaders as Henry Luce and Columnist Joseph Alsop...
...unlike our hometowns, Cambridge and Boston invite walkers. The brick sidewalks, despite their unfortunate tendency to capture kitten heels, are wide and well-kempt. The walk from Harvard to Central Square reveals an attractive, (slightly) more raffish side of Cambridge; in Boston, walks around the Common and Public Garden are rewarded with views of the golden dome of the Statehouse and of the swan boats...
...third-person flourish that "He writes only for the extreme left wing of college student, for the man of social perversity." He composed a droll piece that literally translated French to English. (Everyone French student who thinks himself a wit tries that, but Geisel's was good.) He offered raffish etiquette tips: "a man should not sit down before a lady. It is, however, advisable to violate this rule if the lady expects to sit on his lap." He did lots of cartoons. One, with two chimneysweeps on a roof, had this dialogue: "Shall I go down first?" "Soot yourself...
...herself is curious, independent and thoughtful. Prada once showed a raincoat that was transparent until it got wet and became opaque. This season she charmed the front row with a collection inspired by 1950s souvenir scarves and the quirky tchotchkes (beaded bags, raffish straw hats and embroidered suede moccasins) that a stylish housewife might have picked up on a honeymoon in Venice...
DIED. DAVE BERG, 81, longtime Mad magazine artist and creator of "The Lighter Side of..." comic strip; of cancer; in Marina del Rey, Calif. Unlike much of the raffish satire in Mad, Berg's strips took gentle jabs at absurdities of American life, such as naive car owners prone to getting conned by auto mechanics...