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...world, a record 300 journalists from twelve countries were on hand to do some serious -and not so serious-writing. They belong to an influential but little-noticed subspecies of international journalism, the "fashion dragons," as they are known in the trade. With a mangled metaphor or a burbling encomium, they can rearrange fortunes in the clothing business, and change the buying plans of well-dressed women. On hand in Milan last week were representatives of glossy magazines, large daily newspapers, trade papers and some lesser lights (one improbable accreditation: the North Jersey Suburbanite). For many, Milan was the start...
Lyndon Johnson once called him "an s.o.b. with elbows." Explains the recipient of that odd encomium, Texas-born Charlie Walker: "Down where we come from, that's a term of endearment." In fact, just about everybody in Washington likes the breezy, boisterous superlobbyist, who represents the nation's biggest corporations, including General Motors Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and the country's five largest airlines. Even Walker's opponents openly admire him. Says liberal Lawyer Max Kampelman: "He's always on the wrong side, but he's good for his clients. He delivers...
...leading lights of Amis' collection are frequently less than well known. One of the book's funniest poems, period, is an ironic encomium to an organ grinder by C.S. Calverley (1831-84). A typical stanza...
...appealing. Parisians of the '20s remembered the tall redhead bicycling through the streets: "He looked like a flag," one of them said. Coates was The New Yorker's art critic and the author of acute social novels and stories (The Farther Shore, The Hour After Westerly). One encomium on his work is contained in an aside: "Once a scholar asked to see his letters from Gertrude Stein. 'Sorry, but I didn't keep them,' Coates answered. 'That's funny,' the scholar said. 'Miss Stein kept your letters...
Only a week before he died, Humphrey told a friend that he did not want his requiem to be a morose spectacle. Said he: "Let's make it a celebration." It was certainly that-a rousing encomium to Hubert Humphrey...