Word: cleffed
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...President on the couch and offers a prescription for fixing the party's chronic election woes. From his days covering politics for Rolling Stone, New York, Newsweek and the New Yorker to his best-selling work of fiction--as Anonymous, he wrote Primary Colors, the scaldingly funny roman a clef about Bill Clinton--Joe has emerged as one of America's premier political journalists. I'm thrilled to have him at TIME, even if he occasionally questions the wisdom of hitting the road for another round of motel rooms and crack-of-dawn pancake breakfasts. "I don't really know...
...smash, "Lonely Weekends." All of these performers got the can't-miss slapback echo-chamber treatment, and all eventually bolted Sun. By the end of the '50s the revolution was over for the bright yellow label with the sun-ray stripes, the rooster and the encircling clef notes...
...young "models" with bare midriffs, Fleiss advertised her forthcoming coffee table book. (We're still trying to imagine the person for whose coffee table this is intended.) The book is described by Pages magazine as "a multimedia collage, a cultural document, a pop-art concoction, a witty roman a clef, incorporating court documents, pages from Fleiss' personal and business diaries, old post-it notes scribble with phone numbers about which one can only guess, candid photographs, wiretap transcripts Fleiss bought from federal investigators, and the unique, world-weary philosophy of a woman who describes herself as '36 years old, going...
...stress that there is no real Mrs. X, that the events are exaggerated versions of things that happened to them or people they knew and that they didn't start the book until after they had stopped nannying. Nor did they set out to write a sizzling roman a clef; they were shooting more for Chekhov. "We noticed that in a lot of books in N.Y.U.'s Great Books Program, nannies were mentioned," says McLaughlin. "They were always a peripheral but pivotal figure...
...didn't seem to ruffle him. "I don't fool with the Ernest Lehmans of the world," Winchell supposedly said. "I go after the Westbrook Peglers [a right-wing journalist]." Five years later, Lehman was a big-shot screenwriter ("Executive Suite," "Sabrina") and reluctant to have the romanette-a-clef turned into a movie. But the indie-prod outfit Hecht-Lancaster was a comer - "Trapeze," with Burt Lancaster and Curtis, had hit it big, and "Marty" would win the top Oscar in 1956 - so when they promised Lehman he could direct as well as adapt his story, he bought...