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...International now claims 2,700 members in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. "I think tipping is a way of life," says Schein, 63, "but I think we have to control it a bit." Schein's control takes the form of blue and yellow report cards that members skewer with a monogrammed T.I. toothpick and leave with (or instead of) their tip. A blue card compliments the service and food. A yellow card contains a check list of complaints: service, quality of food, cleanliness, prices, courtesy and atmosphere. The card system, claims Schein, provides diners with a "diplomatic, dignified...
...license, the "artistic self-representation" Castaneda lays claim to, end? How far does it permeate his story of Don Juan? As the books' sales mount, the resistance multiplies. Three parodies of Castaneda have appeared in New York magazines and papers lately, and the critics seem to be preparing to skewer Don Juan as a kind of anthropological Ossian, the legendary third century Gaelic poet whose works James Macpherson foisted upon 18th century British readers...
...will shock and anger some." Sure enough, shock and anger quickly appeared-in Tribune editorials. "We can't sit by," the Trib huffed in July, "while he refers to Israel as 'the Prussia of the Middle East.'" The next month, the paper hopped up again to skewer Von Hoffman's critical description of Republican partying at the Miami convention: "If some [of the delegates] appeared to be affluent, well, so do some syndicated columnists." When Von Hoffman recently blamed the nationwide energy crisis on the greed of oil, gas and coal industries, the Trib retorted...
...sequitur events become progressively more other-worldly (sub-rather than sur-real) and the concatenations of bewildering vignettes are glued together only by the reader's curiosity. But all the while, DeLillo demonstrates his golden ear for the tin and tinsel of Americanese, and many of his dialogues skewer perfectly the soft spots in academic double-talk, adolescent vagueness, the jargon of nuclear warfare (as in Herman Kahn's own book of the dead. On Thermonuclear War), public relations yes-speak, and the excruciatingly serious military-religious language of dedicated football coaches. Take, for example, the language of a shouted...
...Simon's own tutor, and "fellow-actor in Eliot House productions." But more than that gentle irony distinguished the talk: It was the first to be given on film in the Spencer series. Although Simon is generally known as the ogre who stalks Broadway in hopes of trash to skewer for his New York theater column, he's clearly much happier commenting on current film--which he does, at greater length, and for far less pay, in the pages of The New Leader. For his Harvard audience, Simon read a chapter from his forthcoming book on Ingmar Bergman--the director...