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...with lawyers, with family, with her flack. Last Monday, with a trace of hard dignity and without a tear, Vanessa Williams announced that she would step down. "I wish I could retain my title," she said, but she mentioned "potential harm to the pageant and the deep, deep division that a bitter fight may cause" as reasons that she could not. So Williams became not only the first black Miss America but the first ever to abdicate. The 63-year-old pageant, beamed live from Atlantic City to more than 50 million television viewers (NBC pays...
...there is a problem with this lively museum piece, it may lie in the sheer busyness of the place. Over a long weekend, Roberta Flack sings, the U.S. Army Field Band plays The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Presidential Aide Edwin Meese and General William Westmoreland defend embattled political positions, young musicians keep dates with Tchaikovsky under the stars. The resort's daily newspaper warns culture vultures to prepare for Victor Borge, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, discussions of abortion and contraception, and an address by the president of the National Council of Churches. It is not a great surprise...
...Bradlee. "We don't want any of that damned crowd around here," she wrote. "If people want to get to us ... it's as easy as pie, so long as they don't come in (or send their manuscripts in or make a request) via a flack firm. The reason for saying no to these wolves is plain and very strong ... Why should we be in their goddamn memo traffic as exploitable or exploited 'resources...
...proud of some scientific advancement, and in the afternoon be running interference for a scholar who claims his studies cannot be interrupted by chattering journalists. And then Lord might discover that it's Thursday, and her weekly column for the Boston Herald American is due. "I'm just a flack," the lady...
...inflexibility and stinginess with attempts to attribute to him every good quality imaginable. Fiedler, it seems, was a difficult man to love. Rarely showing any personal warmth, he treated his three children distantly, frequently annoyed guests by refusing to pay taxi fares, and once asked Black guest artist Roberta Flack is she "did floors." Yet, lifelong didactic and male chauvinist, he managed to command universal love and respect...