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Speaking as an American, this trend in British politics is something I deplore, and my opinion has only been strengthened by reading British authors like John Mortimer (of Rumpole of the Bailey fame), and magazines like the Spectator , which have made a fetish out of the British attitude toward inessential things.
In an op-ed article Wednesday in the Financial Times, columnist Edward Mortimer said that "Saddam and Slobo, the presidents of Iraq and Yugoslavia, are the true architects of the new world order": "It is largely in reaction to them that, by a series of improvisations, the vaunted 'international community' has defined itself."
Highlights: expensive aircraft (Mortimer Zuckerman's Falcon 900 jet, Tommy Mottola's Sikorsky helicopter), top gardens (Kathleen Turner's, Martha Stewart's--natch), and best softball hitters ( The New Yorker writer Ken Auletta, among others).
This was investigated in a classic paper by the eminent neuroscientists Susan Iversen and Mortimer Mishkin (1970), who studied lesions in monkeys, with elegant and important results.
She was an icon, a catalyst, plugged in to American women via the lecture circuit, and to establishment men, such as boyfriends Mike Nichols and Mortimer Zuckerman, via the social circuit.