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...Cuomo, 23, one of the 20 most eligible and "unalterably ideal ladies" on either coast of the U.S. "It's great fun," says the New York Governor's daughter, who was delighted to be chosen along with the likes of Singer-Actress Michelle Phillips and MTV Video Jockey Nina Blackwood. Cuomo, who has worked for the past three months as an advertising account manager at Town & Country, is modest too, saying, "I am certain there are many, many women who are far more eligible than I." Maybe so, but GQ's readers do not agree. Of all the women featured...
Among Eliot's most revealing letters are those she sent to her publisher, John Blackwood, over a period of 22 years. Her replies to his unwelcome suggestions for changes in her manuscripts amount to a literary credo. When he proposes that she make one of her characters less "abjectly devoted" to an unworthy girl, she answers, "My artistic bent is directed not at all to the presentation of eminently irreproachable characters, but to the presentation of mixed human beings in such a way as to call forth tolerant judgment, pity, and sympathy." Indignantly, she adds, "And I cannot stir...
...when he became manic, or "high" as his friends described it, that he would have to spend time in mental institutions--then he was irrational, a danger to his friends and lovers. Except for Stafford, the women he married--Hardwick and, late in his life, Lady Caroline Blackwood--demonstrated an almost supernatural capacity to stick with Lowell through his bouts with mental illness. It was only when Lowell became involved with Blackwood that his marriage to Hardwick ended...
...from the same cloth: polyester. For the self-consciously hip veejays of MTV, the style is leather and vinyl. Earnest and anodyne, Mark Goodman may spin rebellious new-wave video platters, but no teeny-bopper daughter would be afraid to bring him home to meet Daddy. Nina Blackwood, sultry and sloe-eyed, evokes a Los Angeles chic that contrasts neatly with Martha Quinn's preppie punk...
Attempting to mold a championship team with this abundance of talent will be Usher. Having worked with professionals such as Anne Smith and Marjorie Blackwood, Usher has a strong background in women's tennis, and he is no stranger to Harvard's program...