The personal animus and coterie vendettas are quite real, of course, and still have some vestigial presence in our profession, but the idea that Mr. Sarris and Kael represent opposed positions does not really stand up to scrutiny.
He surrounded himself with guns, dangerous dogs and a coterie of personal assistants and bodyguards who were, at best, highly dubious and at worst actual mafiosi.
Using Israeli intelligence, Ritter discovered that UNSCOM was failing to find Iraq's hidden arsenal because Iraq's Special Security Organization, a coterie of Saddam Hussein's personal guards, was responsible for hiding it from UNSCOM, and the SSO was always on the move.
A spruce man whose work uniform is a crisp oxford shirt and rep tie, Mr. Smith is an independent personal shopper, one of a select coterie of New York fashion insiders whose business it is to guide the weary, the stressed and the style-perplexed over fashion's rocky shoals.
No conventional job title — interpreter, personal assistant, fixer — quite conveys what Goruveyn does for a coterie of Russians playing in the N.H.L.
This approach, allied to a willingness to meet the often onerous personal and financial demands made by Brazilian footballers and their coterie of hangers-on, was also particularly evident when they signed Ronaldinho in 2001.
The past few days have been little short of a nightmare for Scientology, the strange, secretive religion that thrives on its coterie of Hollywood celebrities and its promises of personal empowerment through psychological counselling.
Under cover of pastoral conventions, Behn writes observant, searching poems about her complex personal relationships with other male and female writers in her coterie, or "cabal", and her satires on male sexual behaviour are astute, if at times a shade melancholy.
Then her personal life was pretty much scuttled altogether and it added a coterie of characters into her work life.
