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...recent Gallup poll, Kissinger is the man Americans admire most in the world today. Abroad he has achieved the kind of celebrity status seldom enjoyed by anyone but top movie stars; in fact, he has become in some places almost a cult figure. His round, expressive face draws more instant recognition in many nations than even that of the local ruler. Government leaders, like so many shy fans, inveigle ways to be photographed with him. Arab sheiks, fascinated as much by the machismo image of his well-publicized dates with actresses Jill St. John and Marlo Thomas...
...youth I would have bolted for the nearest television and watched Mussina with baited breath, secretly rooting for him to do the improbable in a room full of Red Sox fans. But that night, I had more important things to attend to—fantasy football rankings and AOL Instant Messenger...
...needle into the distended disk and is guided by an X-ray imaging system that reveals the needle's position at all times. A wandlike device is then threaded through the needle and into the disk. There it emits a burst of radio-frequency energy that heats and almost instantly vaporizes the excess tissue, providing in turn almost instant pain relief...
...think of someone so young who made such in impact so quickly, with such distinction, and in so many media as Awesome Welles (the nickname that was applied to him as much in honor as in derision). Large, fleshy and handsome, with unslakable ambition and infectious dynamism, he gained instant legend; between Einstein and Ray Charles, Welles was the fellow to whom the word "genius" was most easily applied. He had Mesmer?s charm; his voice could hypnotize, his gaze entrance. "When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that?s been watered" (Marlene Dietrich). "It?s like...
...Somehow - after the desperate agitation of the dress rehearsal - the live show was always good, always right. Now it was 8 p.m. Bulova Watch time, and, says Houseman, "At that instant, quite regularly week after week, with not one second to spare, the buffoonery stopped. Suddenly out of chaos, the show emerged - delicately poised, meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity...