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...possible that Beat bad boy JACK KEROUAC was as pragmatic, as structured, as hopelessly square as everyone else in the Eisenhower '50s? In the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly, historian Douglas Brinkley deflates the myth that Kerouac pounded out On the Road in a three-week burst of manic energy sustained by jazz and Benzedrine. After sifting through documents to which he was recently granted access by Kerouac's estate, Brinkley reveals that the author, who died in 1969, actually planned, plotted and outlined his homage to nomadic nonconformity well before writing the novel's final draft...
Sylvester Stallone and Jennifer Flavin, not previously widely known as champions of Italian High Renaissance art, have named their second daughter Sistine. Christie Brinkley called her new daughter Sailor. See if you can match these stars with their unusually named offspring...
...addition to Healey and Gelb, the programs will be overseen by a committee of nine members, which includes Alan Brinkley, an author and history professor at Columbia University; Nicholas Lemann, an author and Washington Editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Kari Marton, author and human rights activist and Vartan Gregorian, the president of The Carnegie Corporation and former president of Brown University...
Mike's wife often said, "Mike likes to spend his Sunday mornings railing at the Archer Daniels Midland Company." For years Mike religiously watched This Week with David Brinkley. Whenever an ADM commercial came on, Mike would glower and recite the latest figure on how much campaign money ADM had given politicians who supported ethanol subsidies. Whenever the announcer said, "ADM--supermarket to the world," Mike muttered, "ADM--superbriber of the pols." What particularly galled Mike was that through his pension plan, he was an ADM stockholder. "I'm paying for this," he often said...
...paying no attention to would come on the line, telling him to be patient. But had the voice, the last time it came on, talked not about patience but about how much of the world's food supply was produced in the U.S.? The voice had a familiar echo. Brinkley? Had Mike just heard David Brinkley describe how the federal ethanol program creates jobs and reduces our trade balance? Maybe not. Mike didn't want to find out. He hung up the phone. The next Sunday he was back in front of his TV set, glowering...