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...prefer it when she's a classy starlet. I don't really like her hard metal stuff, or when she doesn't brush her hair." FRANCES COBAIN, 13-year-old daughter of singer Courtney Love, on her mother's fashion sense
...When Elizabeth Costello commands Paul to "push the mortal envelope," he tries to oblige, virtually adopting Marijana's teenage son Drago and rescuing his sister Blanka from a brush with the law. But it's the pull to her push that gives the book its arresting comic edge. Like "scrupulous doubter" Coetzee himself, Paul doesn't totally believe in the merits of his tale: "I am not a hero, Mrs. Costello." The lady, of course, won't have a bar of it. She exhorts Paul to be a fictional hare rather than a tortoise: "Don Quixote is not about...
...phone from her home in Bath in southwestern England. "I'm very excited about it, actually." It's a rare break from her carefully constructed public image as a seductive songstress, but Goldfrapp insists that she relishes her local anonymity. "I don't wear any makeup, I don't brush my hair, I'm short and I'm not in thigh-length boots or tail - so no one recognizes me," she says. The gap between her public exhibitionism and her private modesty makes a certain amount of sense. After all, Goldfrapp, who is the eponymous half of a duo with...
...means invincible. Once, recalls C. Boyden Gray, a White House counsel in the first Bush Administration, when the Supreme Court shut Roberts out 9 to 0 in a commercial case, the clients were ranting about the result. "How could we lose 9-0?" they kept demanding. Roberts' wry brush-off response: "Because there were only nine Justices...
Graham said he also intended to brush up on Latin American history while at Harvard—and complete a book on politics aimed at high-schoolers that he has already outlined...