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Hemingway molded his life in his own image before the image makers took over and gave us the Marlboro man of American letters. He played the game when it suited him. When it did not, he was apt to circulate statements like 'While Mr. H. appreciates the publicity attempt to build him into a glamorous personality like Floyd Gibbons or Tom Mix's horse Tony he deprecates it and asks the motion picture people to leave his private life alone...
...interviews. Her method makes most interviews on American television seem tepid. Only William F. Buckley Jr., with the practiced assurance of a Catholic debater, similarly confronts his subjects as an equal in discourse (and sometimes barely conceals his suspicion that he is the intellectual superior). Bill Moyers is apt to be overrespectful, perhaps because he often interviews people he admires. Mike Wallace so single-mindedly bears in on someone's vulnerability that he rarely shows the person in the round...
...near her and to reap her virginity at an apt moment, Humbert marries her mother Charlotte (Shirley Stoler); By chance, she hurtles down a flight of stairs to her death and Humbert is free to pursue his lascivious designs. To his shock and chagrin, Lolita seduces...
Though increasing fear of malpractice suits and touchy medical egos make candor difficult, both Steel and Couch urge more open, self-critical discussions of medical mishaps by physicians and hospital staffs. Says Couch: "If you hear about some mistake, you certainly are less apt to repeat it. It's a cheap way to gain experience." The teams also recommend that doctors keep patients and families fully informed throughout the hospital stay. "Doctors often underestimate a patient's intelligence," notes Couch, "as well as the family's willingness to be cooperative...
...other hand, the women who settle down with appropriate spouses are apt to find themselves committing adultery and worrying a great deal about it. Colwin on Polly, the heroine of Family Happiness: "Once she had divided the world into the sort of women who had love affairs and the sort of women who did not. But now she, a woman who did not, did, and with considerable expertise." In A Mythological Subject, a happily married woman begins an affair and torments herself with guilt and questions: "That she had fallen in love meant something. What did it say about herself...