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...very long. Around the neighborhood he was known as a Peeping Tom. "Everybody hated him," says Neighbor Gerald Cash. "He'd prowl around at night, looking in people's windows." Children taunted him with nicknames like "Crazy Pat," and Sherrill would often chase them in a rage...
...start-up year, when his entire business fit into one large drawer in a rented space in the Empire State Building. At least one powerful department store, Bloomingdale's, tried to persuade Lauren to make his radical ties narrower. But his novel design became such an instantaneous rage that Bloomingdale's gave in. Before long, retailers were ordering 100 dozen of the young designer's creations at a time...
...time during the late '60s and early '70s, when the air in America was full of rage and Viet Nam, Hemingway came to seem an atavistic character who loved the wrong things: violence and war. But Hemingway's reputation as a writer has survived, and grown. Public interest in the man and his work persists in an age that might be expected to forget the long-vanished ghost of the grandfather of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway. His publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, estimates that 1 million Hemingway books are sold each year in the U.S. alone. In the past year...
Enter Ronald Reagan, voicing his rage against the tax system during the 1980 campaign. But the new President at first wanted not to reform but simply to slash. In the process, however, he unintentionally helped boost the case for reform. When he sent his three-year, 25%-rate-cut plan to Congress in 1981, the Administration got trapped in a bidding war with Democrats led by, among others, Rostenkowski. So many breaks for business were loaded into the bill that it became a monstrosity. To take the worst example, real estate profited so enormously that a 1983 Treasury study concluded...
Adults who play with toy trains know that a certain amount of snickering goes on behind their backs. It may be this lack of respect that drives a few hobbyists to play with full-size trains. You may rage at a plutocrat who swans around in his private railroad car, but unless you have one of your own, it is hard to sneer...