Word: club
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...Friendship likes a Dickensian glow, and so my friends and I, who have incorporated ourselves as the Chuck Jones Fan Club of America, Chester A. Arthur Post Number One, gathered the other day for our annual Christmas lunch, presided over by the distinguished author Stefan Kanfer, whom People magazine designated as "The Sexiest Man Alive" in 1947, and by the distinguished columnist John Leo, who is also cute as a button. The distinguished critic R.Z. Sheppard, for his part, is short-listed by People magazine as one of the "Most Intriguing People of 2001," although, frankly, I can't quite...
Journalists--truth seekers and cynics that we are--have no tolerance for spin. Right? Well, not exactly. The truth is that journalism has bought into the spin culture. Getting spun is flattering, like being seduced, or like being admitted to the club. And if politicians didn't spin, reporters and pundits would have nothing to interpret and act knowing about...
...project's unofficial leader. Collins claimed at one point that Venter's genome map would be so incomplete and full of errors it would read like Mad magazine. Not to be bested in a war of words, Venter called the genome project's directors the "liars' club...
...Germany, Eberhard Barmann, president of the Berlin magicians' club Zauberfreunde, reports that "more and more grandparents and parents are calling me because they want to know where their grandchildren and children can learn conjuring tricks." Barmann's colleague Wilfried Possin, the head of a magicians' organization in Frankfurt, attributes this surge of interest to Harry Potter: "The books have brought our trade into the limelight...
Martin's Greenspan is a better read. A former FORTUNE writer, Martin gives us a real biography, one that winds through Greenspan's geeky youth (band, glee club, math nerd) to his stint as a professional clarinet player and time spent in the inner circle of author Ayn Rand, and then to his advisory role with Presidents Nixon and Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable...