Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...throughable Oscar shows, capped by the 1993 gender-bending song parody (to the tune of The Tender Trap): "Those eyes/ Those thighs/ Surprise!/It's The Crying Game." He was the writer when Whoopi Goldberg performed before President and Mrs. Clinton--and when Ted Danson did his blackface bit at a 1993 Friars Club banquet. "He told the worst, racist, dirty, just filthy awful jokes," Vilanch recalls. "All mine." The assembled luminaries were embarrassed, aghast. "I mean, they were like marble. You could have chiseled them...
...take issue with some of Andrew Ferguson's points in "Now They're All Ears" [POLITICAL SCENE, Aug. 23]. I agree that political candidates' "listening tours" seem to have elements of a sham, but I think Ferguson exaggerates a bit. In times past, politicians were criticized for their detachment from their constituencies. In an age when it has become easier to travel and communicate, it's necessary for candidates to deal directly with the voters--not just to get ideas but also to find out what some of America's problems and needs are. LARRY SCHOOLER New Haven, Conn...
...sense what is being billed as the primary newsbreak of Diana in Search of Herself (Times Books; 451 pages; $25), Sally Bedell Smith's biography of the late princess, is not news at all. "Diana's unstable temperament," Smith announces a bit ponderously, "bore all the markings of one of the most elusive psychological disorders: the borderline personality...
Smith conducted nearly 150 interviews and sifted through mounds of articles and books devoted to Diana for this volume. But despite entering an already overcrowded field, Smith has produced a well-written, evenhanded work. There is also, remarkably, still a bit of juice to be squeezed from this particular fruit. The world may have believed Diana was the "people's princess," but Smith unsparingly details how Diana let down almost everyone who knew her--including many of the charities that depended on her for support. And in her own affairs of the heart, she was self-destructive at best. Smith...
...help you survive after the disease has been diagnosed. Data on 120,000 nurses suggest that protein from poultry and dairy foods--but not from red meat--may reduce by one-third the risk of dying of cancer. Cutting down on fat, however, doesn't seem to make a bit of difference...