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...cordiality, Rice was a critic of the Clinton Administration's policies and habits. She had said as much, in the kind of language that one of Oscar Wilde's more waspish characters might have used. In a famous 2000 article in Foreign Affairs, she insisted that the "Clinton Administration has assiduously avoided implementing an agenda" that "separates the important from the trivial." In an interview with the New York Times just before the election, she dismissed Clinton's affection for peacekeeping by stating that "we don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten." The Bush team...
Times Square was conceived, really, in 1895, when Oscar Hammerstein, whose grandson would write The Sound of Music, opened the Olympia Theater, a gilded concert hall and playhouse that covered an entire city block on what was then called Longacre Square. The kind of man who once composed an opera in 24 hours on a bet, Hammerstein was also the kind who sold 10,000 opening-night tickets for 6,000 seats. Disappointed ticket holders broke down the doors. Within three years, he was bankrupt. But the idea of the neighborhood as a center of entertainment spectacle lived...
DIED. MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE, 87, film, stage and television actress who won an Oscar for her 1949 screen debut, as a Southern Governor's hard-boiled secretary and lover, in All the King's Men; in San Diego. Her voice later became indelible when she mouthed the profanities for Linda Blair's possessed Regan in The Exorcist...
...This monstrous tally doesn?t include another 80,000 words, more or less, for other TIME.com stories that don?t quite fit the requirements of TOF: Oscar predictions and wrapups, reports on Cannes Film Festival prize-winners, some baseball ruminations and a few expansions of pieces (like this week?s essay on Ben Affleck) that have run in the magazine...
...Other pieces I?ve written for TIME.com have generated larger, more heated responses. My comments on Halle Berry?s Oscar speech cued a couple hundred angry, anguished, articulate e-mails that I answered, directly and indirectly, in four subsequent TOFs. A column suggesting that Cal Ripken?s 16-year playing streak didn?t entitle him to hero status stoked another couple hundred comments, most of them dismissive. Last month?s piece on the liberal media?s contempt for Mel Gibson and his Jesus movie provoked a heavenly host of e-mails - more than 400 in the first three days - from...