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Other people's marriages never cease to intrigue and puzzle. One that lasts for 47 years through two world wars, constant money worries, international fame and five children would seem solidly based on shared interests and attitudes and aligned emotions and temperaments. But as Jane Ridley demonstrates in this engrossing study of the relationship between Edwin Lutyens, the leading English architect of the first half of the 20th century, and his wife Emily, nothing could be further from the truth. Lutyens - the prolific and imaginative designer behind much of Imperial New Delhi, London's Cenotaph war memorial and scores...
Malcolm In The Middle: Jane Kaczmarek...
...anxiety that has plagued the aviation industry for months is finally coming to an end. As early as tomorrow the Bush Administration will name Marion Blakey to replace Jane Garvey as head of the Federal Aviation Administration. Blakey, who has been chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board for less than a year, is a smart choice. Though she doesn't have much direct aviation experience, Blakey is a veteran Washington hand, a former Transportation Department (which houses the FAA) official, and a successful businesswoman who ran her own public relations firm for years. Blakey has gotten high marks...
...Also Rises. They're innocents abroad, naive Candides hungry for an education, spiritual or otherwise. Take the character named Gurney, protagonist of John Beckman's The Winter Zoo. Gurney abandons his pregnant girlfriend in an Iowa delivery room and flees to Cracow to join his cousin Jane. Jane turns out to be a Mephistophelean temptress of the first order, and she schools Gurney in the pleasures of the flesh, turning his stay in Cracow into an all-hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze, art and piquantly incestuous sex. What makes the novel work is that Beckman...
...wouldn't want a high-profile Washington job that has a five-year term, pays $150,000 and puts 48,506 employees and a Gulfstream IV jet at your disposal? Lots of people, apparently. Federal Aviation Administrator Jane Garvey is leaving in eight weeks, and there are no viable applicants lined up to replace her. Time is short: vetting a candidate can take months, and then the nominee must be approved by the Senate, which will recess on Aug. 2. The Bush Administration is so desperate, it even asked Garvey, a Democrat, to stay. But she has had enough. Garvey...