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Sykes never shies away from ethical judgments, and sometimes seems to be writing a Victorian headmaster's report on a wayward but talented boy. The really nagging questions about Waugh--Why does he seem to have been such a reprehensible snob? and Why were his political views so crustily troglodytic?--are fully and fairly dealt with. Waugh is not exonerated, but is saved from the coarser kind of misinterpretation. "His belief in the right kind of people was very much weaker than his belief that there are wrong kinds," Sykes says mournfully. Waugh identified himself wholeheartedly with an old order...
WHEN PRESIDENT FORD was telling New York City to drop dead last month, he evoked a vision of the city as a wayward family to drive home his point. "Responsibility for New York City's financial problems," he said, "is being left on the front doorstep of the federal government--unwanted and abandoned by its real parents." Ron Nessen had used the same kind of metaphor a little earlier, when he called the city "a wayward daughter hooked on heroin...
...They decided that there was still no reason to take any federal action; no one even suggested that Ford change his position. Reported Press Secretary Ron Nessen: "The President is not going to send money to New York." Nessen made a rather silly comparison between New York and a wayward daughter on drugs. Said he: "Would you help her? Are you going to give her $100 a day to support her habit? The answer is no. You tell her she's got to go cold turkey...
...sweet young thing flees from the Paris home of her shoemaker father at age 15 after her uncle rapes her. Caught by the flics-who also rape her-she is placed in a Catholic home for wayward girls and eventually escapes to take up residence in a Spanish bordello. French Porno Film Maker Jean-François Davy's latest flick, Exhibition, is the real-life story of its star, Claudine Beccarie, 30, who has already appeared in 44 other French Films Bleus. "I have no inhibitions," says Beccarie, a shapely brunette whose preferences include bisexuality and gourmet cooking...
Women now know better; a thicket of prejudice and privilege remains. Christabel, however, was a portent. As she disentangled herself from the traditional female role, her independence often appeared wayward, willful and puzzling...