Word: ralph
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...Vesco attempted to get Jordan and Charles Kirbo, a Carter adviser, to block his extradition from the Bahamas to the U.S., where Vesco faces trial for fraud. Since the probe began before the Ethics Act was passed, the Justice Department decided that the law did not apply. Last week Ralph E. Ulmer submitted to Federal Judge William B. Bryant his resignation as foreman of the grand jury and accused the Administration of "duplicity." Among other things, he said, "information was withheld from the grand jury" and "a witness was encouraged to be less than candid with the FBI." Whatever...
Helping spur this gold rush is Designer Ralph Lauren's hit line of Western wear. Loafers just do not go with a $400 leather-fringed suit. City folks are learning what cowpokes have known all along: boots not only look great but feel good as well. They are also a proud brand mark, explains Judi Buie, 33, owner of Manhattan's Texas at Serendipity 111 boot store, whose customers include Rock Stars Alice Cooper and Boz Scaggs and Actresses Diane Keaton and Mariel Hemingway. Adds Buie: "For Americans, cowboy boots say where we come from...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS, A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY by Ralph E. Hone Kent State University; 217 pages...
...Ralph Hone reveals in his biography of Sayers, she was eccentric, private and opinionated ("Everything she said was a statement, almost an edict," a friend testified). Her minister father began to teach her Latin when Dorothy was barely seven. Her talent for languages lingered: in 1915 she took first-class honors at Somerville College, Oxford, in modern and medieval French. There followed a period in which, as Hone prudishly puts it, she "realized the promises of physical sensuality." After two failed love affairs and an illegitimate son (whom she placed with a country cousin), Sayers married Atherton Fleming, a badly...
...turning point in his writing as well. After a couple of transitional pieces, including a bitter account of Nixon's first inauguration, he plunged full-fledged into gonzo with "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Deparaved," a hilarious and brutal tale with Thompson in the starring role, English illustrator Ralph Steadman as side-kick, and the liquor-filled aristocracy of Churchill Downs as the venal side of America...