Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Sometimes he gets so vicious that even the gamely liberal management of the Post has to wince. "They're very admirable about it," Von Hoffman says. "They just grit their teeth and look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of...
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Fustian Soirees. The answer to the most commonly asked question about Von Hoffman is that he is 40. Only his writing has faded bell-bottoms and beads. His faint-striped suits are from Brooks Brothers (with cuffs). With his almost white hair combed straight back and struggling to edge down...
Von Hoffman was a late arrival in the swagger set, and though amused by his new milieu, he was unshakably radicalized before he got there. Born and raised in the U.S., he finished high school in Manhattan, then drifted to Chicago. He married at 19 (three children, divorced) and worked...
The solution came a year ago when the Post decided to create its "Style" section to cover fashion, features, fads and entertainment news. Von Hoffman's articles are defensively labeled "a commentary," but he boasts that "all the fine print in the world isn't going to save...