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...Berlin could also battle for what he thought he was due. "It took longer to write one of his contracts than a whole script," producer Arthur Freed recalled, adding that, afterward, he'd "give you anything you wanted." Avid to see his name above the title, he demanded and got possessive credit on many of his films: "Irving Berlin's 'On the Avenue,'" "Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas,'" Irving Berlin's 'Blue Skies,'" "Irving Berlin's 'There's No Business Like Show Business'" and the grammatically confounding "Irving Berlin's 'Alexander's Ragtime Band.?" Even in the service, he needed...
Signac was also an energetic and talented writer, an avid reader and bibliophile, and an ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches...
Cabral grounds the novel in intimate experience. Trujillo charges the narrative with his malignity. He was an avid racial cleanser. In 1937 he ordered the massacre of thousands of Haitians who settled on the wrong side of the border between the two countries. His murderous chief of police, Johnny Abbes, made sure that the Republic had the best-fed sharks in the Caribbean. "A toad in body and soul," Abbes would be the novel's vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping...
...DIED. KING SALAHUDDIN ABDUL AZIZ SHAH, 75, constitutional monarch of Malaysia; in Kuala Lumpur. Salahuddin, an avid golfer and cyclist, took the ceremonial throne in 1999 under a five-year rotation system when he was elected by secret ballot among the sultans of Malaysia's nine states. Salahuddin married four times, lastly exchanging controversial vows with a 19-year-old. DIED. MOHAMED IBRAHIM KAMEL, 74, the former Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign...
...Harvard in the fall of 1997, Lewis attended the Groton School, a prestigious boarding school in Groton, Mass., where he became a popular campus leader. He served as the senior prefect of his class, an office analogous to class president, and volunteered as a youth soccer coach. An avid singer, Lewis was also active in the school’s choir...