Word: bookings
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Reagan took a little time to talk to his biographer Edmund Morris. It was one of those rare moments between the past and the future. The proceedings were declared secret, to show up in Morris' book a couple of years or so from now. Late in the afternoon Reagan got a call from George Bush. He took it in private, knowing it could be an awkward moment to share with the public. Bush said thank you for the victory to come, the victory that both could feel as the evening rushed in on them...
...chief witness against Steinberg, 47, is his companion of more than a dozen years, Hedda Nussbaum, 46, a onetime children's book editor whom Steinberg is alleged to have brutally battered. Last week the courtroom was riveted by a prosecutor's videotape made of Nussbaum after the pair were arrested last year. It showed a woman with the blank gaze of a zombie, covered with scars and bruises, her right leg bearing green ulcerations, and with several bones and joints misshapen from injuries that were never properly treated. Sitting up front every day, just behind Joel Steinberg, is Michelle Launders...
...fate. For better or worse, the 1992 election promises to be a referendum on the record of the Bush Administration. Thus the Democrats, as they did throughout the Reagan years, are almost reduced to praying for an economic cataclysm. Political analyst Kevin Phillips, the author of the prophetic 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority, sees parallels between Bush and Harry Truman. Phillips contends that just like the Democrats this year, the Republicans ought to have won the 1948 election. Truman managed to mount one last crusade against the memory of Herbert Hoover, but the Republican triumph...
...sustained attempt to live a fiction, and to cast its spell over the minds of others." The words are not Neal Gabler's. They are taken from Sir Isaiah Berlin's characterization of Benjamin Disraeli. But it is a measure of this book's range, seriousness and distance from the typical Hollywood history that Gabler can comfortably evoke an Oxford scholar's description of a 19th century English Prime Minister to define the achievements of the first generation of movie mogul-ogres...
African Madness is a terse testament to wanderlust. The book recounts four trips that Alex Shoumatoff, a staff writer for The New Yorker, made to that continent in 1986 and '87. As he notes in his preface, "My vision of the tropics was, and still is, largely romantic." This mood seems to represent a triumph of hope over experience. Three of the visits recorded here were prompted by somber, decidedly unromantic events. Shoumatoff went to Rwanda shortly after naturalist Dian Fossey was hacked to death with a machete in her remote mountainside camp. The trial of former emperor Jean-Bedel...