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...speaks her mind. When Fabian's father goes away for a summer to earn the money for his son's unwanted wedding, Alaric moves in with the lighthouse keeper, Botho August. He is one of those romantic figments who can coax ships off shoals, seduce women with his silent charm and his gramophone records, and generally alter the chemistry that keeps an isolated community from violence. "A lighthouse keeper held a sacred trust," writes Norman. "Berserk gales, blanket fogs, fairy squalls, even zigzagging water spouts -- weather that had for centuries drowned sailors, lovers, fishermen, and indeed battered Witless Bay countless...
...Robertses' bid ruptured a partnership with Diller that began when Brian Roberts brought the former head of Paramount studios and Fox broadcasting to QVC in December 1992. "Brian was very taken with Barry," says a cable-TV executive, "because when Barry turns on the charm, he can be quite impressive and effective. You have this older guy and this younger kid, and what really must have hurt is when Barry did an about-face. If he had gone to the Robertses and made them feel a part of the CBS deal, this might not have happened...
...Dior's A-line dress has swept Europe and the United States, charm bracelets are in and the precursor to the pill box hat Jackie Kennedy Onuses made so famous is smaller here and squatter. Manners reign supreme and the neuroses Arthur Miller wrote about are running rampant, but have not been made into pop psychology yet. It is the years when the stream-lined apple-green kitchens appealed to the June Cleaver housewife, fully equipped with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries...
...step in any wholesome '50's relationship, marriage. Grace Kelly and James Stewart are inimitable in the respective roles. Kelly, with the finesse, polish and beauty which is her trademark, jousts incredibly well with the curmudgeonly, witty Stewart, whose character L.B. Jeffries will not submit to the web of charm in which Kelly's Freemont tries to entangle...
Buckley's tobacco peddlers come off no better morally than their subpoenaed real-life counterparts, but they do have more charm. In contrast, the book's politicians and anti-smoking crusaders are boorish. Readers will feel superior as they chortle through Buckley's gallery of rotters and Puritans. The hero is Nick Naylor, spokesman for the "Academy of Tobacco Studies," the industry's lobby. He is a former journalist who was fired because he once mistakenly reported the assassination of a U.S. President...