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...however, the Clintons haven't put down roots in the town, at least in the conventional way. They seem to have few close friends here, and no regular church. But Chappaqua is well-suited to them. It keeps a pleasant hometowny charm, and yet is indisputably affluent and worldly. It's home to many successful executives working in nearby New York City. Here in Chappaqua, even with a tall security fence and Secret Service vehicles parked outside, the Clintons' Dutch Colonial (bought in 1999 for $1.7 million) can seem modest. "This is not a gossipy town," says Janet Stephens...
...would then acknowledge his own compliment, and retire satisfied." But for all of its folksiness, the book can't escape a weightier encounter with history. Severgnini laments Italy's former playboy PM, Silvio Berlusconi, as the personification and perpetuator of the world's Italian stereotypes. "He had a lethal charm," he says. "My book explains why so many Italians voted for him. But it's not pro or against Berlusconi - it explains how much of Italy was in Berlusconi." That is to say, Berlusconi was Italian to a fault. Because of him, "we wasted a few years in terms...
...performing oral sex on a man in the seat directly opposite my own. And because I usually ride the first bus out in the morning, even the most uneventful of trips requires me to wake up at an ungodly 5:30 a.m.But operant conditioning has failed to work its charm, and I keep coming back for more. I’ve taken the Fung Wah to and from Boston three times this summer and will take a fourth trip this evening. Each ride, anticipation saturates the air, and I feel that when I reach my destination, anything can, and will...
...Lenny made plenty of enemies. But in saying what he thought, at great price, he liberated stand-up, and all showbiz behavior. A live performance, for comics and rockers and actors, was henceforth designed not to seduce the audience, to play to the old expectations of charm and propriety, but to confront, challenge, titillate, outrage it. I think only jazz musicians had tried that before. Secure in their improv skills, they dared to investigate the farthest reaches of aural experimentation. And if the ringsiders didn't get it ? if a Charlie Parker was literally playing only to the band...
...isn’t so much a character as an extension of Allen himself, a manifestation of the anxiety that ripples through the film’s director. For once, that anxiety might be justified: the end of the film suggests that, while Sondra’s brusque American charm could breathe some welcome life into the London elite, cynical New Yorkers of Allen’s generation might not have a place in European high society...