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...then, Katharine Graham was the most powerful woman in America, no longer shy and awkward but regal and utterly imposing. With an ever more influential newspaper, with Newsweek - which Phil had acquired in 1961 - and with an ever more influential salon at her house on a hill in Georgetown, she was Walter Lippmann and Perle Mesta rolled into one. Much has been made of her salon - the network stars, the Vice Presidents, the gray eminences. But her reach was deeper. She was the connective tissue for the permanent substratum of the capital - the one layered with beat reporters, academics...
Dating the second time around can be awkward and painful, especially when you're reduced to asking your three-year-old, "Do these pants make Mommy look fat?" I'd like to blame my dates, of course, but their only crime is that they show up. I'm the one with the problem. I have become ridiculously picky and demanding--I once rejected a guy just because he used Cremora in his coffee...
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother and I had a storybook romance. I got birthday cards with checks inside, she got pictures of me, and occasionally we'd engage in short, awkward phone conversations--not dissimilar to the workings of a kiddie-porn ring. But the checks-and-pictures ritual lost its utility ever since I got a paid job and am no longer cute when I sit on the toilet naked, at least in the opinion of most people who look through my wallet photos. Our relationship has become more forced and awkward, as if she's suddenly clued into...
...such sagas, fact and factitiousness mix indiscriminately. A friend of the missing intern's told CBS News that when he asked Levy about a recent medical appointment, Levy became awkward. The friend took the silence to mean that she was "possibly" pregnant. Hence a whole new line of speculation. The Levys' attorney, Billy Martin, told CBS News that he knows the truth about her pregnancy but will not give a clue. As for Levy's father, he expressed "doubt" to the Associated Press that she was pregnant...
...awkward business, generating desire. Ford has made it into an art form. When he started designing for Gucci, the label had been almost comically cheesy, a synonym for tasteless excess. Now it's the definition of sizzle. There are people whose voices still grow hushed when they talk about the white dresses with strategically positioned cutouts from his Gucci Fall 1996 collection. And his two collections for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and one for YSL men's have been particularly cunning. Because Yves Saint Laurent himself still designs the couture line and because of the reverence in which fashion...