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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Menopause is not exactly terra incognita. Edith Bunker dithered through a few hot flashes on All in the Family. Kathy Bates' mood-swinging character in Fried Green Tomatoes tore down walls and built them back up again while Jessica Tandy exhorted her to "take those hormones!" and get on with her life...
Mitterrand, whose reputation as a political genius had already been tarnished by his appointment of Edith "Anglo Saxons are homosexuals and Japanese are ants" Cresson as Prime Minister last year, has seen his ploy--and his popularity--explode in his face...
First Spouses have always had some influence on the President, no matter how much that influence was hidden or downplayed. Woodrow Wilson's wife Edith was the virtual President during her husband's long illness. And it is impossible to imagine Presidents from George Washington to George Bush not listening to the counsel of the one person in the world upon whom they can count to have their joint interests at heart. Bush is a better President for having Barbara Bush at his side. So why shouldn't Dan Quayle get the benefit of Marilyn Quayle's intellect and instincts...
...commissioned portraits and the stilted "refinement" of his late salon pieces like Two Women, 1924. His labored attempts at old-masterly composition in the Baroque manner included a melodramatic Crucifixion modeled on El Greco and a hammy image of a heroine of World War I anti-Hun propaganda, Nurse Edith Cavell preparing to face a German firing squad. The irony was that Bellows, in trying to turn himself into a European painter -- or what he imagined a sophisticated European artist to be -- did succumb to provinciality. Earlier he had been a good artist immersed in a particular place: a very...
That glimpse of Washington, where the powerful Senator William Fulbright redeemed the clownish Arkansas Governor, helped banish ideas of playing jazz in smoky nightclubs. Clinton asked his high school counselor, Edith Irons, what college offered a good program in foreign service. The only one she knew, offhand, was Georgetown, but she would look up others...