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None of this means that movie stars in private do not leave behind their public images. Ladd: The Life, The Legend, The Legacy of Alan Ladd reveals that the actor dwelt in a hell of insecurity that was utterly incompatible with the cool, confident screen image. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford establishes that her poised mother Joan occasionally became a hysterical, sadistic monster at home. Bing Crosby, the easygoing crooner of love ballads, behaved like a callous heel toward his first wife Dixie, if Bing Crosby: The Hollow Man is to be believed...
Surely those six girls were lovely; certainly they were daring. Lula Easton gave an oration called "Sculptors of Government." One wonders if she dwelt on Chester A. Arthur, the first voluptuary to hold the presidency. Even then he was planning to decorate the White House to resemble a gambling parlor. (Harry Truman claimed that the self-indulgent Arthur harbored a woman of sin on the premises.) Back then, Greenfield High School's Nellie Garlock may have had all this in mind when she recited "Virtue's Laurels...
...such other Pinter plays as The Birthday Party, The Caretaker (which is currently being given a spotty revival at Manhattan's Roundabout Theater) and The Homecoming. Even more startlingly, this skillfully articulated drama prefigures the spate of British plays (notably Peter Nichols' The National Health) that have dwelt on the inner chancre of an impotent Britain's decline and decay...
Lately, we have dwelt much on our impotence. Helicopters that won't fly in the desert, fly fine on a screen. Video games taste of power without purpose, like the smell of napalm in the morning. Our national naval gazing has led us to wish for more submarines, a resurgence of might that cannot remedy the defect of leadership determined to defend rights it only vaguely states. Like bigger defense budgets, video games, a projection of this shadowy pornography of power, curses rather than cures our seeming impotence...
South Floridians dedicated to easing the strains within the region found little comfort in this month's mayoral election in Miami. The campaign managed to avoid nearly all the major issues and instead dwelt on which of the two major candidates was more Latin: Mayor Maurice Ferre, or Manolo Reboso, who took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Reboso courted the votes of Cubans, while Ferre made his strongest pitches to Anglos and blacks. The results of last week's runoff election show just how bitterly Miami is polarized. Reboso drew 70% of the Cuban vote, while Ferre attracted...