Rosalyn Carter thought criticism was something that just came with the White House turf, sort of like the Rose Garden. ”Betty Ford told me her husband got much worse criticism than mine did,” she says. ”I expected it. I never liked it, but I expected it. I`ve given up trying to understand how Ronald Reagan manages to avoid it. But I wouldn`t want to trade places with him in the history books. That`s when his time will come.”
The article of clothing usually associated with former baseball pitcher Jim Palmer is not a tie. Yet in ”Jim Palmer`s Way to Fitness,” he says it was de rigueur for Orioles ballplayers, who had to observe a strict dress code. This bothered some of them, especially Reggie Jackson, who once was told he couldn`t board the team bus without one. ”I`m wearing a $395 Raphael jacket, $125 Gucci loafers, $85 gabardine slacks; I have a Gucci belt, a Gucci shirt and my El Presidente Rolex watch,” he told the manager. To no avail. The manager refused to change the rules. But the next day, one of the infielders had a price tag hanging on everything he wore.
”The Pentagon is run about as efficiently as a sheikdom,” according to an article in the June issue of Penthouse titled ”The Pentagon`s 20 Worst Rip-Offs.” Heading the list are the $100-billion MX missiles, which are housed in the same underground silos deemed unsafe for the Minutemen ICBMs, the $48-billion M-1 Abrams tank that can`t travel more than 50 miles without breaking down and the $3.2-billion Division Air Defense gun that is useless against jets and is now solely used to shoot down helicopters.
REPLAYS
”When a man loves a woman, he shouldn`t spend his whole life with her;
he should spend maybe half an hour.”
–Rodney Dangerfield
”I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.”
–Tom McGuane
”Come follow me and let the world babble.”
–Dante Alighieri
