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Andrew Jackson Higgins a pivot of history? No doubt, claims biographer Jerry Strahan. Higgins was a hard-drinking, tough-talking swamp rat and boat genius in New Orleans who developed the square-front wooden tubs that ferried Allied soldiers and their equipment onto the beaches. On the morning of June 6, 1,500 Higgins boats nestled aboard the larger transports, the crucial link between sea and shore...
...lung cancer, had filed suit against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies, contending that they falsely represented the health risks of cigarettes. Philip Morris flew DeNoble and Mele to New York City to brief company executives on their research. According to Mele, however, when DeNoble explained that the rat experiment was a strong indication of the addictiveness of nicotine, one executive said, "Why should I risk a billion-dollar industry on a rat pressing a lever?" (In 1992 the Cipollones dropped the case...
...century). The brooding, detailed cityscapes and rich historical set pieces are the best parts of The Alienist. Carr -- and the reader -- has great fun, in particular, with a chaotic scene in Theodore Roosevelt's parlor, as T.R.'s thoroughly modern children coax a pet owl to eat a defunct rat...
...suffered the usual torments of the underground poet moving into the mainstream, and was worried that his band had sold out, that it was attracting - the wrong kind of fans (e.g., the guys who used to beat him up). True, he liked the money that went with mall-rat adulation. But in interviews he exuded a pain beyond standard-issue superstar whining. He said his heroin use was a kind of self-medication for stomach pains, but what he really seemed in search of was psychic equilibrium...
Back when the Rat Pack ruled, Jackie Mason played Vegas and Edward Albee was on Broadway. Today essentially idea-free spectacle -- The Phantom of the Opera, Cats -- dominates New York City's so-called legitimate theater, and stand-up comedy is ubiquitous. In the '90s, Friars Club comedians like Mason have hit Broadway shows, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical Starlight Express has been permanently installed in the showroom of the Las Vegas Hilton. The crossbreeding seems complete...