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MOST ESOTERIC CULINARY STATUS SYMBOL Squid ink. It is favored as a murky, caviar-like sauce for pasta or the Italian rice triumph, risotto...
...funny. Readers of his syndicated columns never have to worry about the embarrassment of laughing out loud in packed trains or at crowded lunch counters. In addition, Buchwald's wit is a comfort, not a goad. He is like a town crier assuring the citizenry of the status quo: the sheep are still in the toxic meadow, the cows in the surplus corn, the politicians reliably hypocritical and venal...
...Kennedy who elevated elite units to matinee-idol status. He built up the U.S. Special Forces, first organized in 1952 during the Korean War, and popularized the green beret many commandos had already informally adopted as their symbol. The Green Berets' role was counterinsurgency: to defend freedom by helping developing (and pro-Western) nations ward off Communist-backed guerrilla movements. The great test was to be Viet Nam. But as the war escalated, counterinsurgency was shoved aside as the U.S. resorted more and more to conventional tactics of massed firepower. Special Forces were increasingly miscast, used as garrison troops defending...
...mercurial, an "emotional volcano" in the phrase of a colleague, who might kiss or curse fellow employees but who almost never ignored them. Peterson represented the lordly tradition of "relationship banking," in which camaraderie with corporate clients was the firm's chief asset. On the strength of his status as former Secretary of Commerce, he arrived at Lehman in 1973 as vice chairman. Two months later he became the boss. Among his deputies was Glucksman, who for two decades battled the disdain of Lehman's investment bankers toward traders. He believed that relationship banking was finished, that profit would come...
...friend. But it is not Apted's failing that he refuses to unearth tabloid headlines for his young-old friends. As it is, he has a big enough story: the end of childhood dreams, and the notion of maturity as surrender to somebody else's status quo. --By Richard Corliss MURPHY'S ROMANCE...