THE FRANK SINATRA CAVEAT
I don't know if I would have liked Frank Sinatra (x-y) as a person. It doesn't matter. For I wholly subscribe to the caveat which Sinatra offered, "All any one can ask of me is a good performance." And that his what Sinatra gave for our asking - many, many, many excellent performances. With this caveat on his behavior, Sinatra goes beyond Steve Martion's, "Well excuuuuuuus me!"

And the Sinatra caveat provides a prototype of the caveat I'm concerned with at