Bonfire of the Vanities is my favorite novel, followed closely by A Man in Full.
He is the richest man in a Senate full of rich people: a Boston Brahmin (his middle name is Forbes) who married an heiress and went to a Swiss boarding school.
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He was a police informer, appropriately troubled by the complicated ethics of betraying his friends, a man who lived in the full expectation that these transgressions would cost him his life.
This week, for the first time since he became president, Mr Menem has the look of a man who is no longer in full control of his destiny.
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He knew he made a comical picture, a middle-aged man, still slim, with a full head of graying hair, sitting up in bed, letting himself go, blubbering, wailing, indulging in wild, spontaneous woe.
He was a young man full of earthly vigor who had a wisdom of his own, and may the earth in which he rests, not far from here, lie light on his bones, and bring the news, each year, of the return of the sun and of the frost.
So full of life, he was a man both confident in himself and curious about others, alive to the world around him with a character that is captured in the words of a Mathew Arnold poem that he admired.
Due to the ongoing repairs, the village owners use a full-time stonemason and maintenance man to keep the buildings in good order.
And if you plop a fanciful full-on vanity in a bedroom you share with a man (which I do), it can be quite polarizing.
They will be rueing the fact that they played Quins on the day that Evans was making his first start since suffering a knee ligament injury on the opening day of the season - the fly-half producing a man-of-the-match display despite playing in the unaccustomed role of full-back.
The erstwhile superstar has returned to the spotlight with a full-length music video diss (see below) that features a man in a devil mask chasing a mock Jay-Z around the woods, Blair Witch-style.
Their latest commission - to create a full-size replica of the Spitfire that crashed in front of Mr de Man on 17 March 1945.
We may never plumb the full intentions of the man or woman preparing to pull the lever in a voting booth...but in the next decade we may at least grow more comfortable with the result.
The former Manchester City man had the option to shoot for himself, but spotted Mulgrew in a better position, and the full-back picked his spot in the bottom corner past Nicky Weaver.
An elderly man, carrying a briefcase and a bag full of jam, said he was leaving the neighborhood to move in with his daughter.
Meanwhile, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said a new rule brought in this season limiting teams to 25-man squads puts extra pressure on managers to use the full extent of their resources.
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