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...life, Levine keeps a low profile. As with many prominent unmarried musicians, Levine gathers rumors the way his formal attire gathers lint. He is whispered to have had liaisons with people of every age and hue, with both sopranos and tenors. But it is his longtime companion, Thomson, a pale, pretty brunet, who lives with him in his unprepossessing apartment and at their 41-acre farm in upstate New York, managing the household. He unwinds with his fruit juice, diet soda and candy bars, and can get by on as little as four hours' sleep, content, as always...
...murder itself. Rice becomes obsessed with unraveling the secret of Brooke's personality, and thus the mystery of her lover's death. Throughout the film. Streep brilliantly conveys a vulnerable sensuality and exoticism that makes her character at once alluring and fearfully repellent. Her strikingly blonde hair and pale skin are continually set against a dark background, thus reinforcing her ominous and mysterious image. At times, she seems a lonely apparition in the darkness, a product of Rice's imagination and perhaps a key to his own confused psyche...
...black-leather dinner jacket with cobraskin lapels. Around his neck he wore his mother's gold lorgnette and a heavy gold watch chain that had belonged to his grandfather, an admiral like his father. He stood beside his old toreador outfit, which was on display, his pale blue eyes alight with reminiscences of his grand entrance at the 1926 ball. He remarked proudly that he could still fit into the costume, flower-lined cape and all. Clearly, Erté would like nothing better in his 90th year than to toss roses once again to his new, appreciative fans...
...made a marvelous story, as Porter knew all too well. For the woman who became rich and famous for her 1962 novel, Ship of Fools, and who will be remembered for such flawless short stories as "Flowering Judas" and "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," invented herself as her first work of art. As usual, the truth is more intriguing than the legend. Joan Givner, a patient rather than a flashy biographer, has set the record straight. It is not a record that allows much grandeur to its high-toned subject...
...Andropov came in through a side door, accompanied by Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Vasili Kuznetsov, the new Kremlin leader surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision...