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...bright barrister attracted Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, who made him a chief aide. Getty called him "an extra right arm" and said he had "a rapier-quick mind and a penchant for hard work." Von Bülow is said to be a man of great wit and charm, but his cosmopolitan suaveness and reputed right-wing views have not appealed to all. Says one acquaintance: "He isn't a monocle popper, not a Junker type at all. He is softer, more Viennese-a real snake...
...find his niche at Harvard: publications. Although dropped--along with Lippmann--from the socially conscious Crimson, Reed, with much writing and publishing experience, found little difficulty gaining staff positions on the Harvard Monthly and The Lampoon. Both served as an outlet for quick imagination and facile wit. The writing was fun, but rarely serious. Too much was written seriously, without revision or even serious editing. Yet, largely for his contributions to these publications, Reed's name became a familiar one to the undergraduate community. Achieving the position of Ibis on the Lampoon, Jack could boast to his mother in Portland...
Peter Sellars's version of Orlando is not a work of Handel scholarship, any more than Benchley's synopsis is a work of Wagner scholarship. But Benchley's spirit is in many ways Sellars's as well: an abundant wit, a vaguely lunatic sense of the absurd--and just the slightest touch of the tarnhelm...
Audience members described the debate as "great entertainment," "a battle of civilized wit," and "two giants facing each other...
...versions of the young men who did the Krige character deadly wrong a half-century before. Nobody has provided a decent line for any of them to say, let alone a scene that would allow them a memorable moment of fright or, for that matter, a shadow of the wit and style that had been bred into all their bones. The whole enterprise is as thin as an unoccupied shroud, less menacing than a Mickey Mouse cartoon and about as entertaining as an airline departure lounge...