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...styles of his gracious generation, he initiates us into the long-lost delights of being a moviegoer in the 1930s ("We were the lucky ones, we first citizens of film"), a baseball fan in the age of Ruth and DiMaggio, a motorist when cars had wooden-spoked wheels, a drinker during the ascendancy of the martini and a New Yorker editor of sufficiently long standing to have worked with William Shawn, James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Donald Barthelme. He was born lucky and he knows it, but he also knows that luck is never quite enough. "Life is tough...
...moaned, “It’s like all the virgin nerds just came out of their caves.” The real adherents to the mission can do it 30 days in a row. In the coming five weeks, FM will follow the booze-soaked journey of drinker extraordinaire Meghan M. Dolan ’06 (I should note here that I make no pretensions to any form of objectivity in this reporting. Meghan’s my girl.) So far, the former FM associate has made short work of Last Senior Standing. “Everything else...
Andrew Kissel once lived quite well--his 80-ft. Lazzara yacht has been valued at $2.8 million--but he was also, according to his estranged wife and other accusers, a drinker, a thief and a liar. The Greenwich police department isn't saying much yet, which is understandable since its officers should be busy speaking to the many victims whom Kissel defrauded over the years. Last week he was set to admit in federal court that he had cheated financial companies out of millions of dollars. According to the Times, Kissel forged documents to pretend that he owned properties...
...forms marked TRAFFIC BUREAU REPORT. The cops picked up Smith the next day, and although he maintained his innocence and although the evidence against him was entirely circumstantial, he was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Smith was 35 at the time, a drifter and a drinker with a penchant but not much aptitude for petty crime. Nothing in his history, however, suggests that he was capable of doing what was done to Goldberg...
...year-old in The Squid and the Whale, gets a double dose of bad luck. The breakup of his parents' marriage comes just as Frank has hit puberty?hit it like a crash-test dummy slamming into a granite wall. In no time he has become a heavy drinker and a chronic masturbator while somehow remaining a sweet, devoted kid. The great trick is in the "somehow." Somehow Owen Kline embodied that bundle of complexities, found the pathos and comedy in poor Frank's turmoil...