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DIED. MARIA CASARES, 74, grande dame of the French theater; of undisclosed causes; in La Vergne, France. A commanding presence, Casares took on nearly every classic female stage role, from Lady Macbeth to Medea--and played King Lear to boot. Her films include Les Enfants du Paradis, Orphee and La Lectrice...
DIED. FRANCES LEAR, 73; outspoken feminist and magazine editor; of breast cancer; in New York City. Married for 28 years to TV producer Norman Lear (and believed to be the model for the title character of his sitcom Maude), she used part of her splashy $100 million 1985 divorce settlement to found the short-lived Lear's, a magazine "for the woman who wasn't born yesterday...
Once upon a time, the presidency--with all the political, diplomatic, military and moral drama that surrounded it--was America's great entertainment. It seems less so now. Maybe in becoming postideological, America has become almost postpresidential as well. At one time the presidency was like King Lear (great stakes, global importances, thunder, cosmic forces contending). But Lear left the stage at the end of the cold war. The old white male patriarchy has gone to the dog track. We live in the squabbling-siblings era of Goneril and Regan (cut the defense budget, the old man doesn't need...
...that burns gas more efficiently, the power train will produce what is, by EPA standards, "zero emissions." According to the Rosens, the turbo-flywheel combination will at least double the gas mileage of the car in which it is used, produce a satisfying sound not unlike that of a Lear Jet (albeit far quieter), and push a Mercedes-Benz from 0 to 60 in a tidy six seconds flat, 0.6 seconds faster than Mercedes...
...financial settlement has not been made known, but it is probably about $23 million. (Diana reportedly asked for $75 million, a sum not unheard of. Actress Amy Irving is said to have received close to $100 million from director Steven Spielberg in 1989; two years later, TV magnate Norman Lear paid an estimated $112 million for his freedom.) It is not clear whether the payment will be made in the lump sum Diana reportedly wanted. The Queen is notoriously tightfisted, so the settlement amount may represent principal held in trust from which Diana can draw interest. In that case...