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...PUBLIC IMAGE, by Muriel Spark. A wickedly witty novel about a movie star who rises and falls on her public image...
...PUBLIC IMAGE, by Muriel Spark. A wickedly witty novel about a movie star who rises and falls on her public image...
...political future, he might well run for the Senate in 1970 if Eugene McCarthy adheres to his decision not to seek re-election as a Democrat. He could run for Governor of Minnesota in 1970-a choice that Muriel Humphrey, who prefers life in Waverly to that in Washington, would particularly appreciate. And he could be important in the fortunes of Teddy Kennedy. "Some day you will lead the nation," Humphrey told the young Senator several months ago, "and I'm going to help you get the chance...
...PUBLIC IMAGE, by Muriel Spark. The author is out to tease, tantalize and teach, and she succeeds in doing all three in this story of a movie star who must decide between private truth and public life...
Enter the Tribune. Just when the Agnew furor had some Democrats smacking their lips, the ardently Republican Chicago Tribune jumped on Humphrey. Its Washington Bureau Chief, Walter Trohan, reported that Humphrey and his wife Muriel had received the land for their lakeside home in Waverly, Minn., as a gift from a "wealthy patron of the Democratic Party." Inescapable in the newspaper's story was the innuendo that Humphrey had been given the land in return for services rendered to a man in trouble with the Government...