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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Dubious Achievement Awards for 1980
Look out, America! You’re still screwing things up, and we’re still taking you to task as we present our twentieth annual awards .......................................................... 21
The Boys in the Pits by Donald R. Katz
In the cutthroat world of the commodities trader, the personal and financial stakes are preposterously high—which is precisely what makes the game appealing .......................................................... 32
“I Am the Malevolent WASP” by Scott Haller
So says actor Christopher Walken, who has something in common with the offbeat characters he plays onstage and on the screen .......................................................... 40
Worldly Wanderings Fashion by Vincent Boucher
Clothes worth packing for a vacation escape, whether you fly by night or otherwise .......................................................... 48
Hotel Dining’s New Golden Age by John Mariani
Return with us to the tradition of dining in splendor at America’s best hotel restaurants .......................................................... 54
The Ripper by Guy Martin
The murders Yorkshire women with a hammer and a knife; he taunts the police with clues. And like the Ripper of yore, he escapes London, he somehow always escapes .......................................................... 58
The Captain Is a Lady by Frank Rose
She’s Nancy Freebairn, a leader among men and a front-running candidate to become the Army’s first female five-star general .......................................................... 70
Arnaud de Borchgrave: The Last Foreign Correspondent by Robert Sam Anson
The Fourth Estate will never be the same if this globe-trotting scribe ever decides to finally hang up his notebook and his pen .......................................................... 75
Esquire Goes on a Date
An evening on the town with a girl who keeps us on our toes: the ballerina Charlene Gehm .......................................................... 84
California Pops Its Cork by Anita Leclerc
Bubbling with resolve to toast the New Year in style, we present for the discerning drinker a guide to the best in domestic champagne .......................................................... 88
Shopgirls Fiction by Frederick Barthelme
When they are there at your service, it’s a trifle eccentric to look but not touch .......................................................... 92
DEPARTMENTS
Backstage with Esquire
A Dubious History .......................................................... 6
The Sound and the Fury
Letters from Readers .......................................................... 9
Media
“Holy Mackerel!” by James Wolcott .......................................................... 11
Ethics
A Yearning for Standards by Harry Stein .......................................................... 14
Unconventional Wisdom
Million-Dollar Wands by Adam Smith .......................................................... 16
American Beat
A Matter of Time by Bob Greene .......................................................... 18
Outdoors
Flights of Fancy by Geoffrey Norman .......................................................... 97
High Life
La Diva Maria by Taki .......................................................... 99
The Esquirer
Early Warnings, Offhand Comments, Gratuitous Advice .......................................................... 101
Movie Classics
The Awful Truth by Edward Sorel .......................................................... 104