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...apparent than in the Cape Cod town of Hyannis last week. CBS Morning News Anchor Maria Shriver, 30, daughter of Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, had made it clear that she wanted her wedding to Austrian-born Actor-Businessman Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38, to be a traditional--and very private--affair. So the Shrivers and Kennedys exerted all their considerable influence to maintain tight security, stymie gossip columnists and keep journalists at a distance. Items...
...charity to all," an admirable aim that has appeared in each succeeding issue. Somewhere along the line, "Woman's" inexplicably got changed to "Homemaker's." No one seems to remember why the switch, but, in any event, small potatoes; the newspaper has always been very much a homemade affair. It has been known to get put together on various kitchen tables...
...executing the plan. But the scenario ends at the plane's doorstep when the woman carrying the briefcase hands it over to an Israeli security officer. She insists on carrying it by hand so that the Israeli security officer can take it. Who is the real beneficiary from this affair? Syria has no interest: blowing up an airplane does not cause the end of Israel. Does Syria feel proud before the world that it has downed a civilian Israeli plane...
...author, then a music reviewer for the New York Times, turned in a rave. The two became cronies and, for a time, neighbors. Shelton's evocations of the Village folk scene in the '60s are affectionate but level, describing Dylan's stormy and formative love affair with Suze Rotolo, which inspired many of his early tunes, and bringing bemused skepticism to Dylan's own tales of his arrival in Manhattan ("Cats would pick us up and chicks would pick us up and we would do anything you wanted, as long as it paid"). Whacked on Rimbaud and Woody Guthrie, Dylan...
...retelling this story, Field frequently borrows verbatim from his earlier book. But there are some intriguing additions. His research since Nabokov's death in 1977 has enriched the European period between the wars and provided some naughty parts. The novelist's great-grandmother Nina von Korf continued a love affair with Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's grandfather, after he became her son-in-law. This, according to Field, accounts for the theme of incest in books like Ada and Lolita, a reversal of family history in which "the man marries the daughter in order to be able to continue more...