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...lost 24 of them since starting a medically supervised all-liquid diet three weeks ago). As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue, whose program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye or get a comforting arm around the shoulder. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience...
Since Mayer's last outing, a robust greenback has grown anemic, the U.S. has become the world's largest debtor, and the stock market dropped more than 500 points in one day, symbolically if not literally ending the avaricious '80s. Mayer patiently brings the reader up to speed on the intricacies of trading stocks, bonds, commodities and imaginative financial instruments with names like STRIPS, zero-coupon bonds and "Heaven & Hell" warrants...
Reading the moods of the robust but fragile Czechoslovak has never been especially difficult, going back to Martina's butterball days around the time of her 1975 defection. A stinging loss then could push her past tears to sobs at courtside. Sculpting her body to a point near perfection, and maybe to half a crank beyond that, Navratilova eventually learned to do her crying offstage. With bruised eyes, she reappeared from the locker room 45 minutes after the only Wimbledon final she ever lost, to say the right things. "It's not so bad. I'm happy for Steffi today...
...routinely bounced off satellites with the weather reports. "Making love," one of the sweetest phrases in the language, now suggests a cause of death. Still, the world is sharply divided into the sick and the well, and AIDS can be something of a lark if you are a robust heterosexual college student at a safe-sex lecture where the instructor demonstrates condom use on a cucumber. Only 4% of adult cases are known to have been caused through heterosexual contact. But for homosexual and bisexual males, who account for 63% of the cases, AIDS is nature's own genocide...
...Winter's Tale, The Tempest and Cymbeline. The plays, which Hall sees as Shakespeare's collective valedictory, are performed on much the same set by the same actors. The high point is Cymbeline, with its Spielbergian supernatural touches (ghosts appearing in dreams, Jupiter descending from the heavens) and robust battles. In one chilling scene, two panels of the back wall bang open to reveal opposing armies about to pour onto the stage. The most impressive coup de theatre, however, belongs to Star Tim Pigott-Smith, a specialist in complex villains. He invades the bedroom of a sleeping princess, robs...