Word: wilted
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...Marcos plundering seems ultimately a cheerless affair, covert though sometimes ostentatious, avaricious though often prodigal. Christ said, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." Marcos did not wish to wait. He turned Christianity upside down. He took nourishment from the mouths of the poor and transformed it into his treasure on earth. Such venality is not a matter of either Freud or metaphysics. It is just a brutal habit, the crocodile reflex of a man too long in power. It is a subdivision...
...starts to describe Gretzky and Bird, will he begin with all of the things they could not do, and then wonder? Is it that Gretzky knew precisely where his teammates were heading, or did he put the puck in a place that made them proceed there? Somewhere far below Wilt Chamberlain in points and Robertson in assists, Bird should be just a respectable presence on all of the lists. But two men in one class are too few for a list. Anyone who really wants to know why they were the best will have to have seen them...
Proprieties tend to wilt in the pervasive heat. In Lord Short Shoe Wants the Monkey, a rising calypso singer strikes a deal at a Barbados nightclub with a white man who owns a trained monkey; the performer gets the onstage use of the animal, and the owner gets a night with a stunning black woman in the singer's entourage. Overhearing this transaction, an American visitor solemnly interrupts: "Gentlemen, forgive me. You cannot trade a woman for a monkey...
...have a very well-thought-out plan. I never do anything rash. People will underestimate me, if they don't think through what I've done. It was said, for example, that when I came to Washington, I would never be able to stand the heat, that I would wilt in a year. It was later said that good old fumbling Don doesn't know the Washington procedure. Now, four years later, I'm still here...
...Italian sports car. And that walk: precarious, tippy-toed, tilted so far toward the ground that his knees seem almost like the brass casters underneath an antique armchair. Calvin Klein may be the image of a pumped-up nature boy, Yves Saint Laurent of a tropical flower that would wilt in direct sunlight. But Karl Lagerfeld looks just like, unmistakably like ... well, a fashion designer...