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...Wanda: Righto, Ralph. In her book The Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochschild says that the perpetually frozen smile of flight attendants is a classic bit of commercial manipulation that propels many of them into mini- breakdowns at the end of the trip. One flight attendant calls it "artificially created elation," the sort of thing that turns women into ticket-selling objects, not to mention flying bunnies...
...Righto, Champ," said the Driver as the last remaining hubcap spun down Newbury Street and hit an antique clothing store with a clang...
Call it perversity, but I call up the main offices of GQ on Madison Avenue in New York. I ask a succession of people at swit-chboards to describe GQ's readership to me. The first woman tells me they're gentlemen. Righto, champ. And quarterly fans too, no doubt. The next tells me they're, you know, fashion-conscious. Finally someone gives me the whole rundown out of a book. It is, as she says, "A lifestyle magazine for the young urban male." More specifically, 'although its coverage is centered on current men's fashion developments it also features...
...well-publicized exception to dignified behavior, an invasion of all-male drinking territory, washed out completely. When four female journalists plunked down a five-pound note and demanded drinks at the bar of El Vino, a Fleet Street bistro, they were rebuffed. Righto, said one veteran equal-rights advocate, female novelist Storm Jameson, who fired off a letter to the London Times calling the quartet "damnably undignified and ill bred...
...leader cried; or at any rate, that was the gist of what he said. The consul snapped his heels together, standing tall, slim, wearing a proper bowler and a double-breasted navy pinstripe. British tailoring, you know, jacket rather shorter than American. Nipped in at the waist Righto...