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...does not want to offend Republican regulars by seeming the brash interloper. He rejected the advice of former White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, who suggested that Connally go on national television and urge other Democrats to follow him into the G.O.P. "It would be presumptuous," said the former pillar of Texas Democracy, "to assume that the Republican Party has been breathlessly awaiting my entry to find out what they were going...
...inside various closed, interesting worlds to observe them acutely but not so far in that he made any special commitments to their inhabitants. His first great success had been 1934's Appointment in Samarra, a savage little study of how a few careless social gestures could destroy a pillar of smalltown, upper-middle-class WASP society. O'Hara knew that world well, but was not truly of it, being Irish and Catholic and the son of a man desperately insecure about his social footing. Later, when O'Hara turned to New York cafe society for the setting...
Robinson originally considered himself miscast as a criminal, and in a way he was right. He was a pillar of Beverly Hills' genteel society, a philanthropist who supported and worked for dozens of causes. He played the harp, amassed an immense collection of impressionist art and was a student of eight languages. When he and Gladys Lloyd, his wife of 28 years, were divorced in 1955, the settlement forced him to sell off his $3,250,000 collection, pieces that he called his "children." But he married again and went back to work despite ill health. Bearded, gray...
...spun toward its rendezvous with the dark side of the moon; the "giant leap for mankind" as Neil Armstrong set his booted foot into the moon dust; the vision of the earth from space, a milky sapphire hanging alone and fragile in the blackness; and then Apollo 17 -a pillar of fire cutting up into the night, spreading a carpet of orange clouds and the sound of thunder behind...
...Sylphide, he portrayed the unhappy lover of an elusive sylph (Natalia Makarova) with something like delicacy and restraint. In Anton Dolin's Variations for Four, he stole the show with the sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little too effeminate as the Spirit of the Rose (not helped by a lurid pink, rose-petaled body stocking) but danced with lyrical grace...