European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 columns the stars and stripes monday september 8,1966 today s crossword restaurant role playing for irs Byar Buchwald when ail the details of the tax Reform Bill Are worked out it looks As if business entertaining As we have known it. Will never be the same. You ran still eat on the government for 80 percent of the meal hut you have to prove hat you really did discuss business Wilh the client. If you try to de duct extravagantly without proof of the seriousness of the conversation you will be fined. This in t like the old Days when men and women took their spouses to dinner and did not hesitate to write them off As legit image business contacts. This scene has been repeated Many times who do you want me to be tonight Eca Hofsly Ducr asked her husband Milton As they entered the ritzy cafe de Paris. You can be Gerry Buckingham president of the Bayou Kile co.," he replied. Why can t i be Ira Harris of Salomon Brothers you were Ira last week. We have to mix it up Justin Case the iks does an Bea and Millon were sated and the head Wailer gave them each a menu can i go All out she asked. Of count you can Milton said. Gerry b � very important client. He buys i Housaiux of spools of string each month. Me has to be treated like a do i have to talk business or can we just eat i think we ought to talk some business just so that the taxpayer does t think he s paying for our dinner Milton said with a slight frown. Milton do you remember the time you took me to Las vegas and i was Clint Broni Stader of the free Point Cement and weather vane be quiet milion ordered. Somebody could be listening. If you keep talking like this i m not going to deduct you any More you re such a worry wart Ca said. Ill never forget the night you wrote me off As David Jaffe you accountant and then suddenly hid under the what would you have done Jaffe walked into the restaurant just As i was paying the so what you were with your wife and he was dining with How could i claim to have dinner Wilh him that night when he and his wife were eating alone in the same restaurant maybe he was taking his wife to dinner and saying it was David would t do that Milton said. He s too Chicken. The reason i ducked under the table was that i was afraid when i sent him my Bill for dinner he would see 1 deducted him for a meal i never had with him. David does t have a sense of for Al David. Where arc you going to Lake me for our anniversary this year How about Bermuda thai would be fun. Who will i be As far As the is is concerned How about Norman Plankton of Plankton Witch Hazel advertising no one would say a word if i said took him to "1 hate Norman Plankton and if i have to be him twill ruin my trip. Well who do you want id go As if i m going to be deducted for the whole business trip i want to go in style. I d like to be let Millon protested what would i be doing taking Lee Iacocca to Bermuda you could always say you took him because he promised you a Good buy on a advice to writers edit your work by James kilpatr1ck Truman capote once was to a that novelist Jack Kerouac never revised w edited his own copy. That in t writing said capote that s capote May have been a creep but on the Art or writing he was sound. The writer who does t work Over his manuscript ii do writer at All. Edit your work if you fall into a Clumsy sentence clamber out and recast it. Throw the bad sentence away. Lei me provide a couple of horrid examples from a recent two part article in the new yorker by Renata Adler. She Haj an absorbing topic in the libel suits brought by Gen. William Westmoreland against Cusand by Ariel Sharon against time she botched the assignment Wilh abominable writing like this on the morning of Jan. 10, 1905, both attorney went Loyel another courtroom on Yel another floor of the Federal courthouse to argue before three appellate judges against an attempt to overturn an order by which judge Sofaer had barred from his courtroom for less than 20 minutes during which certain testimony and documents temporarily under Seal were presented to the jury All spectators including the entity mentioned so obliquely and yet insistently by judge Laval the have another Adler Beauty if the attorneys and their Media clients in both Sharon is. Time and Westmore land is. Lbs could be. In certain key respects at Cross purposes because lbs too needed to argue both that it Story was a historic scoop and that it simply Para phrased earlier publications including the Pike commit tee report and contained really nothing new and also to a lesser extent thai the broadcast As interpreted by West Moreland and by pub Icalone that took the program s thesis up had been misunderstood there were signs that in the strange heat All litigation brings to Bear nothings the very process of litigation Fosters the most pro found misunderstandings in the world not Long ago writing in National review critic made passing reference to the Alia pages of the new yorker. A Nice image. The new Yort Cei piece May run on ind on past satiety and into tedium but the Magazine traditionally has burnished its prose Toan elegant Sheen. Adler j piece was written on Burlap. So Many commas so Many Semi colons and dashes and we abcs and Dau Scal this a prose of the brie Patch. A Reader plunges into an Adler paragraph. He a snagged on a parenthetical phrase. He pushes on. He backup starts Over stumbles on fills Flat publications that look the program thesis t it have been smoother to write of publications that took up the program s thesis if these awful sentences had been written by de Earnest neophyte they might be condoned. Al the professional level of William Shawn s new yorker however they cannot be forgiven. The author s failure and the magazine1 in failure of editing. Nothing is necessarily wrong with sentence that is Burke Macaulay Gibbon Chesterton All of them occasionally wrote Lenien Ces that rolled on for 40 to 100 words but their sentences had Bones in them. They had an orderly Structure. Macaulay never would have separated a verb had barred from its object All spectators by an impassable swamp of 22 amplifying words. 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