Word: rakishness
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...contrast, The Heartaches of a French Cat (Godine; $14.95) features a mute cast of felines. Author and illustrator Barbara McClintock places her 19th century tale onstage, where everything is expressed through the dramatic pose and the pregnant paws. Minette is pursued by the rakish Count Bisquet and the worthy Lionel. In the end she spurns them both to write her scandalous memoir, which becomes an overnight success. If there is any justice, so will this comic biography...
Although they were not supposed to change the substance of what the convention had so far decided, it was hardly accidental that all five were strong-government advocates, and that one of them was Madison. The actual writer was Gouverneur Morris, a one-legged but rather rakish Philadelphian who boasted what he liked to consider a muscular prose style. And prose styles do have an effect. The convention had given the committee a draft that began: "We the undersigned delegates of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay" and so on. Morris rewrote that so it began: "We, the People...
...City there are prominently displayed pictures of himself with Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Pope Paul VI. At Christmas in Marbella, a gaggle of lesser European royalty partook of "A.K.'s" hospitality. Among them was Count Jaime de Mora y Aragon, the brother of the Queen of Belgium, a rakish fellow with a monocle and a waxed mustache who comes across as a blue-blooded Salvador Dali...
...story. In this volume, Fletch sets off to Kenya in search of his father, who has apparently resurfaced after being presumed dead for 20 years. At least one prominent mystery scholar sees the Fletch cycle as a high-minded quest for identity. Less academic readers will find it rakish...
...reason is that the company has so heavily touted its new high technology without delivering much in the way of specifics. Many Wall Street experts see few major contributions so far from GM's acquisitions of EDS, Hughes Aircraft in 1985 and Britain's Group Lotus, the maker of rakish sports cars, this year. But as cars and auto factories become more electronic, GM's space-age alliances could help the company pass its competition. Indeed, none of GM's rivals have taken the giant's poor third-quarter performance as a cue to throttle back. "It's a fluke...