THE BUDGET NOTE HIGH-WASP-STYLE (Undated) … Does anybody have better bad taste than members of America's upper class, a group Paul Fussell once categorized as ``the top out-of-sights?'' The visual cliches of the type are the stuff of legend (and plays by A.R. Gurney.) Their houses are furnished with gravy-colored ancestor portraits, threadbare Tabriz rugs from Aunt Millicent, China export porcelain held together with Crazy Glue and upholstered furniture whose errant springs ambush the unwary sitter LIKE A RECTAL THERMOMETER.<p> THE ACTUAL COPY:<p> Does anybody have better bad taste than members of America's upper class, a group Paul Fussell once categorized as ``the top out-of-sights?'' The visual cliches of the type are the stuff of legend (and plays by A.R. Gurney). Their houses are furnished with gravy-colored ancestor portraits, threadbare Tabriz rugs from Aunt Millicent, China export porcelain held together with Krazy Glue and upholstered furniture whose errant springs ambush the unwary sitter LIKE PINCERS.
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