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According to Balzac, "Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation." According to P.J. O'Rourke, "Manners are a way to screw people over without their knowing it." Although 150 years separate the master novelist from the Rolling Stone nihilist, their contempt for social artifice is identical. The difference, of course, is that one of them has a savage comic flair. The other one wrote in French...
What do Consolidated Cigar and the Richmond Screw Anchor Co. have in common? Both were once owned by the quintessential conglomerate of the 1960s: Gulf & Western. The diverse mix of businesses proved so unmanageable by the early 1980s that G&W Chairman Martin Davis launched a campaign to spin off more than 100 subsidiaries. Last week the company once known as Engulf & Devour said it will sell one of its few remaining divisions, Associates First Capital Corp., a financial services company. Davis hopes to use the estimated $3 billion in proceeds to assemble a world-class media and entertainment giant...
...gather it, and Taliaferro prefers to hire men who, like himself, were convicted of capital offenses and therefore face long prison terms. "Short-timers have an ax to grind. They never learn anything in here. They blame everyone else, and they just can't wait to get out and screw up again. Then they come back. I committed murder. Homicide. I put myself in here. I take that responsibility, and I will deal with that...
...Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies," said Richard C. Marius, who heads Expository Writing. "Now everyone has read Stephen King. In understanding children and adults and evil and their confrontation with evil, Stephen King is in a class with Henry James and the Turn of the Screw. He is a lot better than Edgar Allen...
...that he might be up to the task. As his official plane flew back to Washington, the handful of journalists aboard helped the Vice President celebrate his 42nd birthday by giving him a cake and a present -- a Venezuelan bank note inscribed with: FIRST FOREIGN TRIP: QUAYLE FAILS TO SCREW...