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...highboy, its drawers spilling out cloth and papers and ropes of pearls just as the characters are about to spill out secrets, its surface appearing as unvarnished as the truths to come. Every character with a sexual life is dressed in some variation of off-white -- and looks cool, stylish and slightly soiled. Two ornate sofas are shrouded with crumpled, much used sheets: this is a world of ceaseless, unsatisfying copulation. Although the sides of the stage are heaped with the bric-a-brac of elegance -- candelabra, statuary, flowers -- the characters seem more at home with simple louvered screens, behind...
...Orson Welles and spends some wee, small hours of the morning with Frank Sinatra. The armor of such black, white and occasional gray knights is not deeply penetrated. Vanderbilt is more absorbed in her younger self, which she encases in a shell of hard, polished prose. It is a stylish, though distinctly cool, portrayal of the realities of a fairy-tale life...
Everything in the room: the chairs, couches, tables, and even the stylish hand-made rugs, are a work of art, says Dawidoff...
...town tells how happy he is. I wish just one guy would stand up and say, 'I hate your town, I hate your team, I hate your manager. I'm here for one reason: you shelled out the most.' " Perhaps the least cynical Tiger is Steve Searcy, a stylish left-hander (wearing a CAN'T MISS tag). Searcy had a small stake in the free-agent war. He wants Parrish's number...
...Bill Bradfield avoided that man like a vampire avoids sunburn," and "as predictable as a Tijuana dog race." At times his tone grows weary, as if he were thinking, "How the hell did I ever get mixed up with these wackos and patsies?" Schwartz-Nobel is less imaginative and stylish in her handling of a sensational case with TV-movie potential. She also has bad taste, quoting at the end of her account a "poem" written by Bradfield that begins "Sue was extremely sensitive and terribly, easily hurt./ I tried to put limits on the relationship." Are there no limits...