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...author is seated on a sofa in the 12-room apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side that he shares with Sheila, his wife of 20 years, and their son Tommy, 13. Daughter Alexandra, 18, has flown the nest for her freshman year in college. Wolfe, slender and looking at least a decade shy of his 68 years, wears at home pretty much what he has worn in public since he became a highly visible Manhattan journalist in the '60s: a trademark white suit and vest, a high-necked blue-and-white-striped shirt complemented by a creamy silk necktie...
...year history to try to figure out who's buying them. It discovered a new class of information worker: mobile folks who buy their own gear. These consumers work at small start-ups. They're college students. They're even people who like to telecommute, but from the sofa rather than the home office. Some 30% of laptop purchases will be made by these people during the upcoming year, according to IBM. Price, for them, is a major consideration. So is bang for the buck. Also, apparently, stereo speakers...
Meanwhile, the interrogators are like the optimistic little boy looking for the pony in a barnful of manure. They are so sure that where there's sex there must be a sofa that they ask witnesses to inventory the furniture in the presidential study. White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles provides comic relief when he makes his appearance. "Good morning, Mr. Bowles," says his interrogator. "I believe you have a device that you would like to inflate?" No, it wasn't a blowup doll; it was a pillow. And while the grand jurors wait, Bowles huffs and puffs...
...precise delectable details--in which White House anteroom did the couple convene and what did the Leader of the Free World do with his pants and did they do it on the floor or use a desk or a sofa and was it one of those hard formal sofas not meant to be reclined on and did someone knock on the door during the proceedings and did she smoke a cigarette afterward and were snacks served--these all can be provided by a good novelist. But this is not about government. There is not an impeachable offense here...
...could to stop it (Do you know how many nurses think the heart surgeon is really in love with them? If you keep this up, I will lock you in your room! etc.). I might not succeed, but I do know I would not curl up on the sofa and chat about it. And I would not tuck away a soiled dress as if my daughter had caught the bridal bouquet, even under the guise of preserving it as potential evidence. But, then again, I would never have written a book like The Private Lives of the Three Tenors, hinting...