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...married Christie Brinkley and had a kid--Alexa. It was the era of the Uptown Girl, Downtown Guy. Becoming a father was a profoundly life-changing experience. That was the single most important moment of my life, when that little girl was born. I grew up with no father; my father was never around. So I swore that I would be there for my child. It's as if there were a fault line, and every seven years I have an earthquake. And each of them has made me steadier on my feet...
...Nell Brinkley, who became a national sensation for her depiction of lushly-curled 1920's women, returns from relative obscurity thanks to Robbins. Brinkley became popular enough to warrant a licensing deal for hair products, and inspire a "Nell Brinkley" girl in the Ziegfeld Follies. Lushly illustrated, the book makes a convincing case for her, and other's, influence on the genre. After the care-free "flapper" strips of the 1920s, depression-era women cartoonists depicted mostly dimple-cheeked urchins, and their grannies, including "Mary Worth," created by Dale Conner...
...shift in priorities has a surface gloss of stylishness also. Call it thrifty chic. Penny pinching is back in vogue, even among the rich. Jackie O. shops at the Gap. Christie Brinkley wears plain white men's T shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once...
...Sweetheart Swindler of Century Village b) The most respected newsman in Scooterville c) Riding a scooter set to be auctioned d) Positive Brinkley is in the sidecar...
...good as dead the day I leave office. But that's not the way I look at my life." And so, following Jimmy Carter's strategy of countering bad memories with good works, Clinton will open a second front in his war for posterity. All Presidents, says historian Brinkley, "try to improve their reputation after they leave office. Andrew Johnson was elected Senator after he was impeached, and Herbert Hoover traveled the world as a humanitarian and wrote more than two dozen books." The Clinton Center, which will offer a master's degree in public service through the University...