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...leader of the free world, but though the hair is more salt than pepper today, Ken Starr, Yasser Arafat and Newt Gingrich seem to have inflicted only minor damage on the appearance of Bill Clinton. A nonscientific survey of some other men of a similar age and high-pressure milieu suggests that interviewing celebrities and yelling from the basketball sidelines take a greater toll on a man's dewy youthfulness...
...even the Hampstead series is freaked by the specter of white eccentricity. Day's milieu was like a gentle giant, fumbling to grasp exotic cultures, but instead squashing them under its thumb. He never antagonizes his many black, Algerian and working-class subjects, but he frequently objectifies them, making them into statues. Although his white nudes are more marmorial by virtue of their whiteness, they are always dignified by their reference to a classical subject, usually a god. On the other hand, the black nudes of Day's early career, the disadvantaged white youths of his later years and even...
...such parents, Wallerstein offers the following advice; First, stay strong. The child should be assured that she is not suddenly responsible for her parents' emotional well-being. Two, provide continuity for the child, maintaining her usual schedule of activities. Try to keep her in the same playgroup, the same milieu, among familiar faces and accustomed scenes. Lastly, don't let your own search for new love preoccupy you at the child's expense...
...same time that he was embarking on his journalism career, a striking young Portland, Ore., woman, standing 5 ft. 10 in. with waist-length red hair, moved to Los Angeles to be with a keyboard player for Steppenwolf. There she became enamored of musicians and their milieu, and when she returned to Portland, she continued hanging out with the bands that came through town. Adopting the name Pennie Lane and a vintage 1940s wardrobe of dresses, hats and gloves, she became one of the era's more notable groupies, playing den mother to a group of attractive acolytes known...
...years as head of the Vienna Opera--when his visionary compositions and inspired performances were commonly met by savage criticism, often fueled by anti-Semitism. In this penultimate volume of his monumental biography, La Grange locates Mahler at the heart of turn-of-the-century Vienna's flourishing cultural milieu, which, together with Mahler's relationships with many of its major figures, he vividly evokes...