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...said, did, thought, felt, read or saw, accompanied by copies of newspaper stories he wrote as well as letters he sent and received. This glorious mishmash constitutes an informal history of 20th century America by an inquisitive writer who interviewed everyone from Harry Truman to Irving Berlin to 50-cent whores in the slums of New Orleans. Ellis has willed his diaries to New York University; some professional historians regard them as a national treasure...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
...slick and vastly overrated photographer, conservative in every sense except the sexual, who is now seen as a hybrid of welfare queen and Caligula, living off the NEA on your tax dollar and mine while sticking bullwhips up his bum. In fact, Mapplethorpe neither got nor asked for one cent from the NEA to make the photos that caused the offense; a museum did that, for a show of his work. And he died a multimillionaire because of the ranting queer hatred of Jesse Helms, Pat Buchanan and the religious right--not to mention the tribal loyalty of art-world...
...Citron, who has since pleaded guilty to misappropriation of funds. Yet the bankruptcy need not have been ruinous. Orange County is vastly rich: its gross economic output of $77 billion is about the same as Greece's. According to a study, the proposed sales-tax increase of a half-cent per dollar would have cost the average resident only $50 a year while reaping $140 million in tax revenue, enough to procure a new loan to cover the county's maturing obligations...
Alice Hamilton, who joined the Harvard faculty in 1919 as assistant professor of industrial medicine at the School of Public Health (SPH), will appear on a 55-cent stamp...