The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

To start with, there's the alien accent. "Tree" is the number between two and four. "Jeintz" is the name of the New York professional football team. A "fit" is a bottle measuring seven ounces less than a quart. This exotic tongue has no relationship to any of the approved languages at the United Nations, and is only slightly less difficult to master than Urdu.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.