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His fey charm and classic good looks

The teenage dread is not so much dramatized (as with Caulfield or Sport) but is, to borrow Jacques Derrida's phrase, sous rature -- as though the very presence of the idea owrks only to emphasize the extent to which it should be absent.

a revealing interstice in the early eighties

Ellis and his youthful confrères

Somnolent gentlemanly English firms were sucked into American food conglomerates