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John Self, the extravagantly wretched man at the heart of this wonderfully funny book, is no ordinary pig. He's a monster of lustrous indulgence. Naturally, he's entering the movie business. But somehow his low cunning and bewitching awfulness make him and this novel perfectly irresistible. --By Richard Lacayo...
...RICHARD YATES...
...DIED. JACK WHITE, 63, reporter for the Providence Journal whose 1973 story on Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes won the Pulitzer Prize and prompted Nixon, who ultimately paid more than $400,000 in back taxes, to utter the famous line, "I am not a crook"; on Cape Cod, Massachusetts...
...Appreciation of film director Robert Wise [MILESTONES, Sept. 26] referred in a rather disparaging manner to The Sound of Music, for which Wise won an Oscar for best direction. TIME's somewhat negative cinematic view was first voiced 40 years ago when the movie version of the 1959 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Broadway musical comedy opened. Here is an excerpt from that critique [March...
...communications department of the American Association of Retired People and a former deputy press secretary for the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. Her speech focused on the debate over the Democratic platform for the 2006 election and the rules of message-framing used by communications professionals. “When [Richard] Nixon said, ‘I am not a crook,’ what did everyone think? That’s right, that he was a crook!” Davis said, demonstrating her rule about not using the opponent’s language.The members also attended several sessions...