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...news comes in on the full tide. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a lovely writer, the widow of Charles Lindbergh, dies in her house in Vermont. She slips off and away, having lingered some years already in the kingdom adjacent to death, the region of intermittent blankness where Ronald Reagan passes his 90th birthday. She was 94. Uncoaxed, the lives of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Ronald Reagan come flashing before my eyes - a cascade of images, quick-cut and all out of sequence, the celebrity American Century tumbling through the mind. It must be the moon...
...There's no reason to pair Ronald Reagan and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, except that they were born four years apart, long ago, in a different America, before the flood, and both came over with us into a new millennium, though they were enveloped in fog as we crossed the line. They make me think of Woodie Guthrie's '30s ballad based on "The Grapes of Wrath": "We buried Grandpa Joad on the Oklahoma Road,/ and Grandma on the California side...
...Reagan and Mrs. Lindbergh were the bright side and the dark side of the age of publicity. Mrs. Lindbergh lost her first-born child to the savagery of fame. She hated the jackal press. She felt safe from it only when she was up in the air in a two-seater plane with her husband, cut off from the earth. She thought all celebrity was empty, and cherished her private world...
...million years ago. In 1986 a MacCready-inspired, wing-flapping, computer-brained, radio-controlled and astonishingly realistic pterodactyl was photographed as it swept over Death Valley, Calif., for the Smithsonian Institution's IMAX film On the Wing. Today his Gossamer Condor hangs alongside the Wright Brothers' Flyer and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which also includes the Gossamer Albatross and the pterodactyl in its permanent collection...
Without prompting, BEN AFFLECK, the star of Pearl Harbor, can deliver a recitation on the history of American isolationism that includes references to the America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Wendell Willkie and F.D.R.'s neighbor's-house-on-fire, lend-him-a-hose speech. He's not dating Gwyneth Paltrow--but it's clear he's been spending some quality time with Doris Kearns Goodwin, who's foxy in her own way. As for the movie: "I play a guy who believes we should be in World War II," says Affleck. "I have kind of a John Wayne idea about...