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...women fell in love with him." He was a skilled dissembler and sometimes a liar. He claimed to be healthy and filled with "vigor," but he was chronically ill with Addison's disease, agonizing back pain, a weak stomach and puzzling allergies. He was kept alive by a cocktail of medicine every day, along with cortisone implants in his thighs and feel-good amphetamine injections. Kennedy's secret sexual encounters with dozens of women are now well known. Reeves documents some of them, including one arranged by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a villa in Italy owned...
...where are you, then? Have you made the first cut? Been invited to the first you-may-already-be-a-winner cocktail party for comp finalists? And if you're comping The Harvard Crimson, have you done your required "Tommy's run" yet? (Remember: that's two Sweet-n-Lows, two creams in Pat's coffee...
Maybe all this exposure to Harvard's comp smorgasbord will put us ahead of everyone else when we enter the real world. We'll impress the powers that be at cocktail parties; we'll brown-nose the comp directors of corporate America; we'll be rising stars. At least that's what we've always been told...
...Well, it's bound to happen every now and then. I suppose we'll just suck it up. Until then, fall compers, enjoy your cocktail parties. I'm a little jealous. At the Crimson, all we ever got were pretzels and warm beer...
...your plans for this weekend include brushing up your cocktail-party knowledge of famous artists, this exhibit is not for you. If, however, you find yourself in more of a reflective mood with pipe in hand, "Chaste, Chased, & Chastened" provides a fascinating insight into the age-old interplay between art, tradition and profound cultural questioning...