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...terror in which democratic authority is sinking." As one of the first consequences of the state of emergency, the government decreed a one-time tax, which is aimed at raising $780 million to finance extra military spending. MEANWHILE Elvis is Toast New Zealander Maurice Bennett crafted an unusual portrait of the King of Rock 'n' Roll on the 25th anniversary of his death. Two months in the making and covering 5.76 sq m, the portrait consists of more than 4,000 pieces of toast. If Elvis were alive...
...cover portrait of Miami photojournalist Susan Pierres elicited contradictory reactions, proving that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. "Since most of the media treat older women as if they don't exist, I was amazed and heartened to find a vibrant, beautiful 60-year-old on your cover," wrote a California woman. "I'm framing this dazzling picture as something to live up to as I near Pierres' age." But another Golden State sister was less impressed, declaring that "Pierres has obviously overdosed on Miami sunshine." A Minnesotan agreed. "Pierres needs to wear sunscreen...
...blues with a difference: the breaks come not in the first two lines (as in, say, Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally") but in the fourth and sixth, giving the lyric room to build to a natural dramatic climax and the pianist room to paint his sound-portrait. Of course there's a slew of arpeggios (eight, to the all-time record 11 in "Great Balls") and the satyr-singer's invocation of the magic moment "when your hips start rockin'/ Honey, and your knees start knockin'." For a transcendent 1min, 58 secs., find the song on the Jerry...
Lansing, the subject of an Intimate Portrait this week on the Lifetime channel, says her mother was her first role model. "When my dad died when I was 9," says Lansing, "I watched her take over the real estate business in Chicago. So many of my movies are about a woman who is not going to be a victim." When Lansing, who is married to director William Friedkin (The Exorcist), took the Paramount job in 1992, she continued to spin gold out of what she calls "female empowerment films" such as The First Wives Club and Double Jeopardy...
...kind of wife you sometimes imagine I ought to be," Emily once wrote to Ned. The Architect and His Wife (Chatto & Windus; 484 pages) took Ridley, who is the couple's great-granddaughter, six years to research and write. The result is a balanced and accessible portrait of a marriage in which the architectural descriptions are informed but not arcane and the treatment of the cult of theosophy is balanced and mercifully brief. Ultimately, suggests Ridley, Ned and Emily Lutyens "perhaps learned to love one another as they were." The emphasis is on the word perhaps. Reflecting on her marriage...