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...bulimia were shocking enough. Worse, by monarchists' reckonings, were the signs that Morton had enjoyed the cooperation of Diana's friends and relatives, who presumably would not have talked had the princess told them not to. More than a few interested observers surmised that the wife of the current heir -- Prince Charles -- and the mother of the heir presumptive -- Prince William -- was building a case in the court of public opinion for an eventual divorce...
This was not the way it was supposed to be. As Carson's heir, Leno would bring both familiarity and freshness to the slot. He would book hipper musical guests and reclaim part of Arsenio's audience. And with his camp-counselor personality, he would retain Carson's senior fans. All this has indeed come to pass. If Hall gets the headlines with shows featuring Ice-T on the hot seat or Bill Clinton torturing a saxophone, Leno still wins where it counts: equaling or surpassing Carson's ratings and ad revenue. The difference is that all this...
Someone who grows up with his own gas pump and dog cemetery, and is heir to the greatest newspaper dynasty in the country, has to work hard at being a regular guy. For Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who succeeded his father as publisher of the New York Times this year, this means taking public transportation, not owning a country house or a car, and touring Europe by secondhand BSA 175 motorcycle. His signature sport is not golf or squash but rock climbing. The new Star Trek is his favorite program. He has taken on cleaning up Times Square and working...
This line is not surprising coming from a political heir of Ronald Reagan, who voiced his contempt for public assistance with apocryphal stories of "welfare queens" driving Cadillacs. What is surprising is how many Democrats and liberals are sounding the same themes. Presumptive nominee Bill Clinton insists that "those on welfare move into the workplace" within two years. New Jersey Governor Jim Florio denounces the current welfare system as "morally bankrupt." Many state governments, meanwhile, are slashing benefits and throwing thousands off the rolls. "America has moved from a war on poverty to a war on the poor," says Yale...
...fact that when a great artist breaks the mold, the result still pays homage to the mold itself. There can hardly be a more intensely moving portrait of a woman's naked body than his Bathsheba with King David's Letter (1654). At root it is a Titianesque conception, heir to those sumptuous Venetian nudes; but Rembrandt avoids idealism, suffuses the real imperfect body with thought and a sense of moral reflection, re-creates the structure of flesh in terms of an amazing directness of "rough" brush marks. We think of paintings like this or the later Kenwood Self-Portrait...