Word: shermans
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...widening corruption investigation that has tarnished the once squeaky-clean image of Los Angeles law-enforcement agencies. Dozens of narcotics agents from both the sheriff's office and the city police department are suspects. The probe began two years ago, after a deputy's wife tipped off Sheriff Sherman Block to the thefts. Block disbanded four of his narcotics teams and suspended 26 deputies, including some of his most decorated veterans...
Aaah, aaaahh, aaaaaah, aaaaahhhh. And also, possibly -- why not? -- aaaaahhhhhhhh. These are the onomatopoetics of anguish (and perverse exhilaration) as rendered by Tom Wolfe toward the end of The Bonfire of the Vanities. They are the sounds made by his protagonist, Sherman McCoy, as he at last acknowledges that he is an all too human animal: capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning...
What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state's manuscript when he left the statehouse...
...authors' enthusiasm for the "high," their curiosity about the "low" and their richly inflected sense of the complex traffic between the two. Gopnik and Varnedoe write better than their critics. The next-to-last essay ("Contemporary Reflections," by Gopnik, covering a wide swath from David Salle and Cindy Sherman to the short- lived graffiti movement) is, on its own, the best summary yet written of American...
...Olympic games are the most important symbol of Atlanta's evolution from provincial mill-town to modern metropolis since (dare I say it?) William Tecumseh Sherman...