M&D linguistic paper

KENNETH HOUGHTON KENNETH_HOUGHTON at dbna.com
Thu Jun 19 19:03:19 CDT 1997


     If you're wearing your e-mail tag, my wife would probably come up to 
     you and ask about the picture of Carole Wilbourn in the current issue.
     
     --ken, who still hasn't seen those women (wimmen?) hanging out at the 
     MoMA Cafe with _M&D_, as promised


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Subject: Re: M&D linguistic paper
Author:  Tom Stanton <tstanton at nationalgeographic.com> at dbnaccip
Date:    6/17/97 5:13 AM


At 03:00 PM 6/16/97 -0600, Todd Meigs wrote: 
> And i'm not about to
>complain about the NY cocktail women sauntering up to my table, managing to 
>make their uncracked copy of M&D match not only their socks but lipstick, 
>earrings, and stockings, while they start in on "isn't it awful the way the 
>poor man is stalked by those nasty reporters?" as I signal for another 
>martini...
     
M&D as a pickup devices, eh? I was naive enough to believe it was 
just a novel. So if I go strolling around SoHo with a well-read copy 
will women glide up & chat? 
     



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