Word: vendettas
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...Musical Note--The much maligned Harvard Band paid an unexpected visit to The Crimson's 14 Plympton St. office last night. The band has been on a vendetta against Cambridge's only breakfast table daily for some time now, and band members refused to comment on why they decided to raid the newspaper's offices after last night's hockey game. Still, Crimson editors said they were impressed with the peppy, if not always on-key, rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard" in their front office. "I should have joined the band," remarked Crimson Editorial Chair John L. Larew...
...shoes, or soul, of a half-white, or a black, they would impose on us the most stifling form of apartheid, condemning us all to a hopeless rift of mutual incomprehension. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to a litigious nation's equivalent of the tribal vendetta: You did my people wrong, so now I am entitled to do you wrong. A plague on every house...
...exterminator Delbert McClintock as a much lighter character. McClintock has no desire to study the vermin, nor does he fear them; he simply revels in destroying them. The absurd pride with which this cross between Rambo and a Beverly Hillbilly goes about annihilating spiders, as if on a personal vendetta, effectively lampoons both Atherton's seriousness and Jennings' irrational fear...
...Long Island, N.Y., called The Gold Coast (Warner; 500 pages; $19.95). The fences come down when Sutter defends Bellarosa in a murder trial -- and when the don seduces Mrs. Sutter. Or is it the other way around? As Sutter wrestles with his instincts and his ethics, the notion of vendetta no longer seems the exclusive property of the Mafia. Nelson DeMille's previous books Word of Honor and The Charm School demonstrated an ability to sustain tension; this one adds a smart social eye and an unfailing sense of humor...
...unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City in 1989. "We are here because Rudy Giuliani decided to make it his project to gain votes . . . by going after Drexel," argued one ex-staffer. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, who used to head the investment house Dillon Read, was accused of a "vendetta" in not ordering a bailout for Drexel. Said a former employee: "Drexel took a lot of business from them ((Dillon Read...