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While Babbitt can sound impassioned about creating jobs, his room temperature is cooler than most. Detractors call him aloof and ungrateful for political help, and even many allies describe him with more admiration than affection. Says Alfredo Gutierrez, former Democratic leader in the Arizona senate, "I consider Bruce a friend...
The aged John Huston filmed The Dead -- the last of his 37 features -- in great serenity, just before he died last summer. In it he set forth his affection for the writer he said he loved best and, paradoxically, for the Ireland to which he exiled himself for the midpassage...
In this mock recital, everything is played for real. Seated on folding chairs on the gym floor, the spectators are treated as if they had been classmates in Oil City, and each night a different woman in the audience is -- surprise! -- showered with affection as "Miss Reeves." While it is...
The music belies her, but in conversation she makes the process sound easy. She is planning a new album of her own rock songs and spends congenial time with her son Nicholas, now 21 and studying at Cambridge. After three successful and warming concert appearances in New York City right...
The memo also contained a number of personalized grace notes that could only have been flattering to Reagan -- and therefore might have made him more receptive to Nixon's advice that he should deal with Gorbachev: "I sensed that Gorbachev's attitude toward the President and the First Lady was...