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...Hawk" (1946) is set in Manhattan and offers a sketch of the author as he may have seen himself: "He was not so handsome as he supposed, but handsome all the same. For his moderate height he was excellently proportioned; his hair was dark yellow, and his delicate, rather snub-nosed face had a fine, ruddy coloring." Capote's journalism -- notably Handcarved Coffins -- shows the influence of his fiction and what he called the "foxy rules of story making...
...very least, the legal uncertainty may encourage some witnesses to snub investigators in the Iranscam probe and other inquiries (among them, the investigation of former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger on conflict-of-interest charges). The threat is serious enough that Justice Department officials and congressional leaders are talking of a possible compromise: President Reagan could reappoint the same independent counsel himself, thus circumventing the constitutional problem. Says Stanley Brand, former counsel to the House of Representatives: "Unless they work this out, we could be headed for a crisis of confidence in the administration of justice...
...Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist became, as he put it, "the first person in America to fire a network." Breslin had been miffed that abc aired his show at odd hours, as late as 2 a.m. in some markets, including his hometown of New York City. abc responded to Breslin's snub by declaring it had already announced its intention the preceding Friday to pull out of late nightchatter competition by canceling both the columnist's show and one featuring Dick Cavett. The network said, however, it had not been able to locate Breslin in time to deliver the bad news. Says...
Boesky may have to go to jail. But in all likelihood his biggest trouble may come from coping with a societal snub, when he will have to resign from prestigious boards and clubs. But even this will probably be short-lived, as money always seems to make friends and influence people...
...harsh enough insult. When South African State President P.W. Botha paid a "private visit" to France last week, he was greeted at Orly Airport not by Premier Jacques Chirac, as diplomatic practice would normally dictate, but by the Foreign Ministry's chief of protocol. Chirac explained the snub by saying that any contact with Botha "would be considered a breach of solidarity with our African friends...