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Foster could speak eloquently of the rank underside of stargazing -- of fandom fanned into fanaticism. Understandably, she does not speak on the subject (just last week she canceled an appearance on the Today show because Hinckley was to be mentioned), or on other aspects of her personal life. She knows that Hollywood movies are all about the marketing of emotion, and that it is difficult for actors, the onscreen vessels of emotion, to keep their lives sensible and their sensations private. Nonetheless, Foster is determined to separate public persona from private person...
...Port-au-Prince to tell the army chiefs, led by Brigadier General Raoul Cedras, an Aristide appointee, "that they must immediately leave the presidential palace" or face total isolation. For his part, Cedras claimed he had stepped in only to quiet rebellious troops in what had begun as a rank-and-file revolt...
...professional life. The Selling of the President, 1968, a savage back-room report on the manipulative TV advertising in Richard Nixon's campaign, made him, at 26, the youngest U.S. nonfiction writer to top the New York Times best-seller list. Other triumphs followed. If McGinniss did not quite rank with David Halberstam or John McPhee as a chronicler, he stood not too far behind...
...President said, "I don't have anything to say about that scum Plekhanov! He's not human! Do you think he's worried about his country? No way -- he's only after his rank and filthy life...
...disappearance of the party and its minions was all the more stunning because it had been so ubiquitous in Soviet life. Its 300,000 apparatchiks, backed by a party-cell structure embracing 15 million rank-and-file members, supervised everything from kindergartens to strategic nuclear rocket forces. Advancement to the upper levels of politics, industry, army and intellectual life was virtually impossible without party membership. The party owned 5,254 administrative buildings, 3,583 newspapers and 23 resorts and sanatoriums. Its cash assets last week were put at about 4.5 billion rubles. But as last week demonstrated, there...