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...Schuster; 284 pages; $17.95) is that the protagonist, retired attorney Reuben Frost, is one of the suspects. Together with his wife Cynthia and his friend Detective Luis Bautista, Frost searches for the real culprit. Their investigation leads to the boardrooms of his old firm, power lunches at Manhattan's toniest club, and the swimming pools of Rio. Haughton Murphy (the pseudonym of James Duffy, a retired Manhattan lawyer) writes with inside information and civilized wit. The fifth adventure of Mr. and Mrs. Frost makes them the most enjoyable pair of married sleuths since Mr. and Mrs. North...
...this, and see the Harlem beneath the cliches, beyond its familiar notoriety as a graveyard for Great Society programs. True, the place is not what it was during Harlem's toniest decades, when swells partied at the Cotton Club (now defunct) and Joe Louis stayed at the Hotel Theresa (today an office building). Nor is Harlem what it may become in a looming decade of gentrification and white encroachment. But it is, at its best, a community that radiates warmth to outsiders who dare to embrace it. During Sunday service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Pastor Samuel Proctor greets white...
...Disney could only have daydreamed of. At first you may snap to suspicious attention when, say, a cartoon stork pedals a real bicycle, or Jessica diddles a human's necktie. But the film encourages you to vacation in its ingenuity. Drop by the Ink and Paint Club, Toontown's toniest dive, where the password is "Walt sent me," penguin waiters patrol in tuxedos, and Daffy and Donald Duck, together for the first time, perform a piano duet. Meet old friends like Mickey and Bugs, Tweety and Betty Boop, and new ones, like the '80s version of Snow White's dwarfs...
...shirt emblazoned with the paper's now legendary April 15, 1983, headline HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR. As earthy Post newsroom veterans (uncomfortably adorned in ties and jackets) were introduced to their new boss, many wondered if Amsterdam, of late an editor at Alfred A. Knopf, one of the toniest book publishers in the country, was up to the job. Says Amsterdam's friend and former boss, Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward: "There's not been a more interesting match since Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis...
...want to consult the opinion of an unexpected new arbiter: U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet. Last week the Manhattan-based judge named the 55 classiest retail stores in the U.S. He compiled the list as a way of enforcing a November trademark-infringement ruling in which he prohibited the toniest U.S. stores from selling Elizabeth Taylor's new fragrance, called Passion (price: $165 per oz. of perfume). Sweet had ruled that the upper-crust marketplace already belonged to an older Passion ($270), which the French firm Annick Goutal has marketed in the U.S. since...