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...charge. But the Soviet % leader also seemed anxious to reassure ordinary citizens that Yeltsin's discharge had been warranted. In a widely publicized speech to senior party leaders at week's end, Gorbachev did not mention Yeltsin by name but criticized officials whose management decisions "bring society to a fever" and "unnerve people" -- charges that were leveled by many against the abrasive Moscow party chief during the meeting that preceded his downfall. Gorbachev also threatened to "part company" with those who resist his perestroika (restructuring) program, a not so subtle threat to punish opponents of his policies in the party...
...long-lived constellation of T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost. Meyers, biographer of Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield and other troubled writers, persuasively argues that the younger men approached their predecessors "in depth of genius and artistic achievement" but "surpassed them in the extremity of pain." Meyers' fever chart begins with blighted childhoods: each man lost his father young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping at colleagues and then placing blame elsewhere. "American...
...approached by a mid-40s woman with her husband in tow: "She had enjoyed Fatal Attraction, and was taking him to see it 'so he'll never cheat on me.' And he goes, 'Huh-huh' -- this nervous little laugh." Sidney Ganis, Paramount's marketing boss, observes, "There is a fever out there. It is more than a movie. It's part movie, part real life." Adrian Lyne, the film's director, is amazed by its reach: "The movie is almost like a living thing that feeds off the public and takes on new shape." In other words, Fatal Attraction...
...heroic style. Here is Alexander the Great, who smashed the Persian Empire and led his devoted Macedonian phalanxes all the way to India. A fearless warrior, he was wounded eight times before succumbing to a fever...
...United States cracks appear in the hitherto flawless facade of the Royal Marriage. At a state dinner in Washington, Di dances with only two men: Clint Eastwood and John Travolta. Concerning the latter, the princess revealed that she had wanted to dance with him ever since seeing Saturday Night Fever. Rumors begin to spread that her husband, the future king, is unable to "do the hustle...