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Stirling's growing reputation belies the controversy surrounding his work. A 59-year-old Scotch architect of imposing girth but unpretentious manner, he was little known in the U.S. when Harvard selected him in 1979 from among some 70 competitors for the Sackler job. Since then, he has won the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the international $100,000 Pritzker Prize and some of England's and West Germany's choicest commissions, including an addition to the Tate Gallery in London and a science center in the monumental heart of West Berlin. He is the subject...
Certainly after the divorce, if not before, Walker was often seen escorting attractive women to Norfolk nightspots. His fondness for Scotch brought him a now ironic nickname, "Johnny Walker Red." He could take dates on Chesapeake Bay cruises in his green houseboat, the Drift-R-Cruise, or on his 26-ft. sloop (each valued by his lawyer at $6,000). There were also flights in his single-engine Grumman Tiger, which was worth an estimated $20,000. He dated Pamela Carroll, a Norfolk police officer who moonlighted at his private detective agencies...
...Angeles daily, Irwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase) presents himself to various sources as G. Gordon Liddy, Harry S. Truman, Igor Stravinsky, Don Corleone and Arnold Babar (as in the elephant). He also makes up a few monikers: Mr. Poon from the SEC, for example, and John Coctosea ("it's Scotch-Rumanian"). Sometimes he does not bother with name-dropping; he just gets a false beard or teeth from the novelty store and skips blithely into and out of trouble...
...deal or woo a client. Now trust is more often won by a show of efficiency and orders for monkfish and mineral water. Water snobbery has replaced wine snobbery as the latest noon-hour recreation. People order their eau by brand name, as they once did Scotch. The fastidious will not take it on the rocks, because ice bruises the bubbles. Only aspiring starlets drink Perrier ("designer water," sniff detractors). Evian is Hollywood's chic refresher, and the hottest innovation of all is Cit-Jet, a pressurized can of lemon juice from France that will flavor the waters of summer...
Does all this mean that journalism has turned into a profession for teetotalers? Said Managing Editor Ray Cave, nursing a modest Scotch: "Nope." We'll drink to that...