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According to legend and some of his clients, Swifty Lazar seldom bothers to read manuscripts he sells, and some people even imply that he could not do so if he wanted to. "A vile canard," complains Swifty, insisting that he spends 90 minutes a day in intensive research. Actually well-educated, he is a lawyer whose practice is now limited to writing the impressive contracts he wangles for his clients...
...Gracie Mansion." Then Wagner began tossing out his own accusations: he charged both Gerosa and Levitt with responsibility for a deal that enabled the sponsors of a Queens housing project to make a windfall profit of $2,400,000. Understandably pained, Democrat Levitt accused Wagner of issuing a "vile, vicious slander." The mayor, he cried, was "unfit to hold public office." As for Republican Lefkowitz, who faces only token opposition in his party primary, he spent most of the week vacationing in Saratoga...
...handiwork: "My denunciation was harsh and bitter, for those were the harshest and bitterest days in a thousand years of our history." He disclosed that the script had even been criticized as "too mild" by a man with a reputation "more weighty than that of the author of Vile Bodies"-Winston Churchill himself. On the other hand, he argued, Waugh's "Ceremony of the Opening of the Wounds" could only hurt Wodehouse. Snapped Connor: "Now Mr. Waugh, in the role of an eager exhumer, disinters the corpse and with busy spade and blazing arclights, goes smartly to work...
...comedy. Kenneth Tynan recently seconded Orson Welles' view that Shakespeare was suffering from venereal disease during the period in which he wrote Hamiet, Troilus, and Measure for Measure. Such hypothesizing is dangerous; for that way madness lies. Yet it is true that these plays all present sexual relations as vile and tainted...
...father's titled ghosts seem oddly dated in Welfare State England. Moreover, there is something lacking-the figure of the innocent but virtuous hero (Paul Penny feather of Decline and Fall, Adam Fenwick-Symes of Vile Bodies) whose reasoned view of an unreasoning world gave a special cutting edge to the elder Waugh's comedy. Auberon says he has no interest in being a professional novelist. He wrote The Foxglove Saga because it was what was expected of him in a literary family (his father wrote Decline and Fall at 25, and his Uncle Alec wrote Loom...