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That's how Warhol remembers Colacello in The Andy Warhol Diaries (807 pages), published in 1989, which is not exactly how Colacello remembers Colacello in this 514-page nag. Dueling diaries may be the perfect '80s moment, in which two shallow people recount in mind-numbing detail the comings and goings (a lot of time is spent in cabs) of long-forgotten and always boring celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better...
...starvation to countless varieties of religious wars, the 20th century newspaper is one huge Domesday Book, a catalog of horrors so vast that numbers lose human meaning. One death is a tragedy; millions of deaths are statistics, to be deplored, then filed away as nightmares beyond comprehension. The atrocities nag at our conscience, finally numbing it. Amnesia seems the only solace...
Martha is a loud-mouthed, overbearing alcoholic, and Gunn plays her well. Martha loves George, but she is disappointed with his lack of ambition, and as result she relentlessly degrades him publicly and privately. Gunn plays her nag role to the hilt. Her screams of "George" are perfectly annoying, her menacing looks towards him pack a lethal force, and when she criticizes George, her tone leaves a fire in its wake...
...made a clear misstep. Throughout the campaign, the 50-year-old Prime Minister had cast the agreement as essential to his country's prosperity, and it was instantly apparent to the viewers that the pact could not be vital and disposable at the same time. The exchange crystallized a nag of doubts about the pact and about Mulroney himself...
...overruled performances in the team bronze-medal confrontation between the American and East German women. The U.S. team was not expected to be a contender. But the Americans came on strong during the compulsory round, finishing less than half a point behind the East Germans. What happened next will nag at Americans in Games to come, much the way that sports fans still pick at the scab that remains from a 1972 wound, when the U.S. basketball team lost the gold to the Soviets in a disputed final few seconds of play...