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...Scotch-fueled slough of pity and paranoia. A book on Leonardo da Vinci languished unfinished. A Time editor who had noticed his elegant freelance pieces phoned from New York one day in 1970 to offer a steady job, but Hughes drunkenly denounced the caller as a cia agent and hung up. Fortunately for journalism, the editor rang back, and Hughes was the magazine's art critic for more than three decades. Things I Didn't Know ends shortly after that promising second call. Left largely untold is what happened next in Hughes' life: a breakdown, the suicide...
Three weeks of hospital life had taken a toll. I was 20 lbs. lighter, stooped, and as pale as a death-row inmate. Lacking a hand and 3 in. of forearm, my right limb hung almost a foot shorter than my left, the length of a child's arm attached to an adult's body. In a light-green hospital gown, I wasn't groomed for the runway or my date of Jan. 2. My girlfriend, Rebekah Edminster, had flown in from California for a 10-day stint...
...being me. I resolved to return the love by being less self-absorbed. I promised my kids I would stay out of war zones. My brother-in-law, Michael Flesch, came for a three-day visit, the longest time we had spent alone together in years. We hung out at Walter Reed by day and frequented Washington haunts by night...
Back at an undisclosed location, our amateur framed up the wall, settled it into place, and even installed a pre-hung door. Then, to block out his noisy suitemates, the blossoming general contractor installed bright pink R-13 fiberglass insulation and sound deadening panels, which he admits even the courteous Home Depot employee dubbed “overkill.” As a finishing touch, he used wood veneer paneling to give the room a flower power, Brady Bunch house feel...
...kills while hitting .371. While Harvard and the Matadors remained close in the game one, Northridge jumped out to quick leads in Games Two and Three, stifling the Crimson’s hopes of a comeback. “They were really a team we could have hung with much more than we did,” Cebron added. “It was our mistakes which led to the loss.” Turley-Molony led the Crimson with eight kills, while Mahon and Kocurek added 12 digs apiece. Matador Darla Donaldson, later named the tournament MVP, led Northridge...