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Rice's admirers point to her intellect and perfectionist drive and conclude that if anyone can figure out what to do in Iraq, it's Rice. "She's done all the reading," says a British official. "You're sure she's seen all the angles." If the demands of the job are straining her, she doesn't like to show it. For those who knew Rice before she joined the Administration, it's striking how little Washington seems to have changed her. (I met her as an undergraduate at Stanford more than 10 years ago, when Rice was provost there...
...Lonely" albums and a restive retirement. On the trajectory, four marriages and innumerable crises leave indelible marks on the face and style. At one taping he finally berates himself--"Drink, drink, drink. Smoke, smoke, smoke. Schmuck, schmuck, schmuck!"--and tries to change his ways. Through it all, the perfectionist raises pop singing to an art, and the philanthropist never quits. How has Ol' Blue Eyes endured and prevailed for five decades? A doctor, naming Sinatra an honorary staff member of a hospital for which he had raised the funds, has the bottom line. The title, he says, is superfluous: "Frank...
...whose grand-scale, big-budget pictures of the 1950s and '60s, notably The African Queen (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962), won 23 Academy Awards, including three for best picture; in St. Martin, West Indies. Spiegel was a perfectionist who relentlessly drove his writers, directors and actors, but he commanded, or inveigled, loyalty: many who angrily quit his far-flung film sets at night were persuaded by morning to stay on. Born in what is now Poland, he produced his first U.S. picture, Tales of Manhattan (1942), under...
...that the cheeses have won gold medals at the past two Orange County fairs in California. Says Whiting: "This complaint has caused rancor because of the insinuations. Plainly it is not true that Mr. Gallo doesn't know how to make cheese. Joseph Gallo is very much a perfectionist and was kind of hurt that he was attacked this way." AIRLINES Trying to Foil a Merger...
...began: asking the right person to make the case for the pick. TIME's journalists brilliantly fit the bill in many cases, but we also thought Henry Kissinger was a natural for Condoleezza Rice, as was Sean Penn for Clint Eastwood. (Sean the writer is no less a perfectionist than Sean the actor.) Donald Trump, who wrote about Martha Stewart, argued with us over a comma via telephone from his limo, pointing out that "I've written three best sellers...