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...William Ginsburg. The screen went dark in the Map Room, and almost immediately there was Hatch on NBC threatening, "I'm just going to blow my stack" if he hears another word against Starr. His stack gone, he moved over to CNN, where he threatened to blow his "cork" if the phrase "$40 million" (as in "$40 million investigation") was repeated again. On the air, he said he was "personally offended" by Clinton's attack; in the hallway, he called the President a "jerk" (as close to a four-letter epithet as Hatch ever gets). Salt Lake Tribune reporter John...
Just now Crowley, 45, is the Gershwin of designers. With his 1987 Broadway debut, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (all those elegant, suffocating drapes!), and 1994's Tony-winning Carousel (a small town in idyllic greens and blues), the kid from Cork, Ireland, showed the breadth and iridescence of his gifts. This year he had three new Broadway shows: Twelfth Night, the Oscar Wilde bio-play The Judas Kiss and Paul Simon's The Capeman. Amid the rubble of Capeman's reviews, Crowley earned praise for his expressionistic perspectives of uptown tenements and upstate jails. He is now at work on four...
...quickly grow tiresome. Liquor is never straightforwardly liquor but rather "the waters of life" or "the spirits that cheer" or "the squeezings of Bacchus." When Malachy meets an Irish actor, he does his all too customary stage-Irish routine: "Begod, Sir, you'd never think the man was from Cork, atall, atall..." And here is our thoughtful memoirist on his conduct during his first wife's first pregnancy: "There was many the night I wouldn't return to the marital bed, as there would be the bed of a nubile, adoring young thing to be tried for the resiliency...
...Paris he made more toys and, before long, a whole circus: lions and their tamers, an elephant, acrobats, trapeze artists, clowns, all made of wire and wood and cloth and cork, with himself as their enormous ringmaster manipulating them to music. To judge from the surviving film made of the circus in action, it was quite a show, and it appealed to the latent kid in every avant-gardist. It was le cirque Calder that got the young American full entry to the Parisian art world. This charming piece of performance art was one of the small sights of Paris...
...architecture of Mather House. Recognizing that Mather, with its dark brown regulation carpeting and yellow-white walls does not easily accommodate those looking for the Laura Ashley or Crate & Barrel look, Hahn and Murphy chose to echo the color scheme of their house. In the common room, dark brown cork disks decorate a wall. Below the disks, a funky brown swivel chair and a colorful afghan blanket evoke memories of Dee-Lite...