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Today Le Carre is hale, white-haired and vigorous. He has a hearing aid discreetly tucked in each ear, but he is otherwise undiminished. His speaking voice is patrician in tone (he was once, briefly, a tutor at Eton), and he quotes fluently from the annals of military historythe British in Suez, the CIA in Iran, the Abkhazian War, obscure, half-forgotten intelligence scandalsbut he is also an almost unnervingly gifted mimic. Over the course of an afternoon, he does, among others, the author James Jones, a snooty French photographer, Truman Capote and Mel Brooks' 2,000-year...
Early in the film, Vivien Leigh, as the Southern belle with patrician airs, lays eyes on Marlon Brando as sweaty, sexy, brutal Stanley Kowalski. That's the crucial moment when films gave up a love of the American aristocracy for a fascination with the roiling underclass, and when actors were given license to rage and mumble--to express the inchoate feelings of souls caged or adrift, doomed by society or destiny...
...Paper Lion, among the finest sports books ever written. Plimpton also guest-starred on The Simpsons, danced at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and witnessed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Though he loved to play the underdog, he never lost his dignity or his twinkly-eyed patrician charm. --By Lev Grossman
...here's what we've learned about George W. Bush. He sees the world in black and white, good and evil. He has the macho gait of a West Texan but carries his Scottish terrier, Barney, up and down the stairs of Air Force One like a New England patrician. He delegates authority but relishes the big decisions--and never looks back after making them. He trusts in a heavenly God but believes just as devoutly in the power of leadership on earth. Now, as his second campaign gets rolling, here's what we don't know. Will his success...
...AWARDED. CLAIRE TOMALIN, 69, British biographer, the 2002 Whitbread book-of-the-year award and its purse of $48,000, for Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, a portrait of the 17th-century patrician playboy and diarist; in London. Tomalin beat her husband, novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, who won the best-novel prize for his thriller Spies...