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...dapper cross between Groucho Marx and Rudyard Kipling; the same dark, emphatic brows, bristle-broom mustache, prognathic jaw and mordant cast of eye behind steel-rimmed glasses. But when he described himself, there was no mistaking the original style of the most literate, widely traveled humorist of his time: "Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin and pauper-poor is S.J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture...
Liddy positioned his right hand over the candle so that the flame licked at his palm. Soon, the room filled with the scent of burning flesh. Liddy did not flinch. The stench became overwhelming. The executive pushed a button on his intercom...
...stumble out of your room, drop 30 cents in a Coke machine, and press the selection button. What do you get? Not always a can of soda, says Jonathan S. Sack...
...confronting these problems by calling his Presidency "a time to heal," borrowing from Ecclesiastes. If it actually were a time to heal, that healing called for active therapy, not indolence: Ford led a reign of atrophy. "A time to heal" cannot explain away the nonpareil frivolity of the WIN button (which Ford still defends as a "good idea"); in line with his Calvinistic youth, Ford is begging off his responsibility to a force, in this case history, beyond his control...
...former student of Herbert Marcuse at the University of California at San Diego, I remember his walking into class one day in 1969, wearing a button given to him by the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. The button read: TO HELL WITH COMMUNISM! Marcuse remarked to the class, "The reason I'm wearing this button is because I agree with it. I'd rather go to hell with Communism than to live here without...