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Albert at 65 has no desire for higher office. Born in an unpainted shack in McAlester, Okla., he was raised in nearby Bug Tussle (later renamed Flowery Mound), after his father abandoned coal mining to become a tenant farmer. As a student in a one-room schoolhouse, Albert developed a...
A full two months ago, when the first allegations of Spiro Agnew's involvement in an old-fashioned kickback scheme appeared, his political future had ended. The fire-breathing orator, whose appeals for law and order and tighter control of the press had so frightened liberals, was reduced by a...
Every male chauvinist pig of a certain age can remember the movie, where the docile wife (played by Luise Rainer, German accent and all, for an Oscar) labored in the fields alongside her husband until the very day of their first child's birth-and went back to work...
The summer after his junior year, Fechtor studied under mime artist Jewel Walker at the Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama. Last spring he spent a trimester studying in France with Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher. The 76-year-old Decroux was a strict instructor "For the entire first month...
The guests begin to arrive and the couple make accommodations for them, even though the visitors are invisible or non-existent or a dream. But the man and woman make small talk and scurry around gathering chairs, first politely and then like demons. More "guests" arrive, more chairs accumulate. We...