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...Neill (3-0) led the Harvard effort...
...totalitarian regime has its brutal side (storm troopers set farmhouses on fire and destroy exile camps to stifle dissent; a rebellious teen is caught and brainwashed). But for the most part, the melodrama is muted, the mood somber and contemplative, the complexities rich. A KGB colonel (Sam Neill) turns out to be one of the movie's most articulate and charming characters. And, despite the anti-Communist theme, the film is a subtle refutation of Reagan-era optimism. These Americans, after all, are not can-do patriots but meek, dispirited folks who simply want to get along. "Just surviving," says...
When Eugene O'Neill got a toothache he turned to Saxe Commins, a dentist known for his light touch. But the playwright's ailing tooth was so stubborn, O'Neill noted, that the dentist "had almost to call in the derrick squad." Nevertheless, extractions proved to be the basis of their relationship for the next 30 years. After Commins left dentistry for publishing, including a quarter-century at Random House, he gently but forcefully drew from O'Neill some of his greatest plays. "Love and Admiration and Respect" is a record in letters and commentary of a remarkably creative friendship...
...year ago, certain that he would be elected to succeed Tip O'Neill as Speaker, Wright met with network officials, who agreed that a live response would be more newsworthy than a pretaped show. Although it was the turn of House Democrats to give the response, Wright decided that inviting Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd to join him would show that Democrats in both chambers are determined to work in tandem now that they control all of Capitol Hill. Twice last month the two met in Byrd's ornate office to outline what they would say. Each leader drafted...
...Life, Salinger objected to the extensive use of letters to, among others, Ernest Hemingway and Judge Learned Hand. The correspondence, gathered primarily from university libraries, sometimes shows him at his most scabrous. In one passage cited in the court opinion, a young Salinger vented his anger after Oona O'Neill, whom he had dated, married Charlie Chaplin. "I can see them at home evenings," he wrote. "Chaplin squatting grey and nude, atop his chiffonier, swinging his thyroid around his head by his bamboo cane, like a dead...