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...school reunion. In what has to be one of the most bizarre and yet completely believable rituals ever described in women's literature, the three chums ingest large quantities of marijuana, cocaine, acid and opium (Faye also spends a good deal of time sprinkling nutmeg into glasses of straight scotch because it's chic), dress in Brearley uniforms (short pleated tunic over granny collar shirt, gold studs optional) and present each other with detailed reports of their sexual activities since the last meeting...
...gopher on an NBC comedy show. His job is to keep an eye on the show's upcoming guest star, Alan Swann (O'Toole), a faded but still popular swashbuckler whom Benjy idolizes. His task is not an easy one: a man who keeps flasks of 12-year-old scotch sewn into the lining of his coat. Swann has a propensity for appearing on tabloid covers in morally dubious positions...
...Scotch verdict for Donovan
...unsatisfying end last week. Less than a month after reopening his inquiry, Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman closed the case, saying, "I have been unable to corroborate the allegations made against him with sufficient credible evidence." But the prosecutor's exoneration of Donovan was something like the Scotch verdict of "not proven." Said Silverman: "I was, and I continue to be, concerned by the sheer number of allegations...
...booms, a call to optimism. The question is: How much? If the book's promise is taken at face value, the reader will be disappointed. Kahn occasionally sounds like Annie singing "Tomorrow .. . Tomorrow." But these strained high notes are immediately followed by flat-out qualification: ifs, maybes and "Scotch verdicts," which he describes as "good enough for our purposes." The small print in this social contract gets irritating. One sentence announces a new dynamism, but the next pulls back to "a good possibility for substantial improvement." Some paragraphs seem to have been written in a kind of probable-perfect...