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Moses's name appeared constantly in the press, but the news media were generally content to echo his press releases and confine themselves to orgies of adulation every time Moses cut the ribbon for a bridge or a playground. Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker is only the second book-length study of Robert Moses to be published--but it almost singlehandedly makes up for this lack of biographical information about a man whom Lewis Mumford called the greatest influence on American cities in this century...
...Caro spent six years interviewing everyone he could find who had known Moses well, who had served under him, or who had had his career destroyed by him. Caro waded through forty years of Moses's press releases and examined the hitherto closed books of Moses's Port of New York Authority. The Power Broker is a 1200-page monstrosity that is a mirror of its subject--oversized, uncompromising, and ruthlessly partisan...
...might have been happy as only a wife and mother, claims Soprano Maria Callas, 50. "There have been two great loves in my life," she told a Miami Herald interviewer. "My husband and another man." But fate had other plans. The plump twelve-year-old who belted out Caro Nome on the Original Amateur Hour grew up to be the most famous opera singer of her generation, a tempestuous diva whose emotional pyrotechnics and lengthy affair with Aristotle Onassis often attracted as much attention as her vocal virtuosity...
...forward, punched the button on the dual-faced time clock, pulled a Parker Jotter from inside his black and white checked Hong Kong suit, scribbled the notation PK4 on his score sheet and dug in. Nearly five hours and 39 moves later, Petrosian surveyed the shattered remains of his Caro-Kann defense, stood up and shook Fischer's hand...
Acting with the voice is a theme that runs through her talk like a Wagnerian leitmotif'. After listening to a coloratura sing Caro Nome from Rigoletto, Callas remarked: "Give it more freedom. You have to be a girl who is passionately in love. True, Gilda is still a virgin, but one should not be too cutesy, because of what happens to her later. Don't forget, she sacrifices her life for love...