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...enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness as her international career, already robust, continues to expand. Everyone wants Bartoli...
Their marriage was doomed from the start, he wrote, because each had slogged through a hard childhood and needed an exceptional amount of emotional support that the other was unable to give. He portrays Diana as the more robust personality of the two, a born leader who will only grow stronger. In the end he fancifully envisioned them both in the 15th century. She would be another Joan of Arc, commanding armies in battle. Charles would be Archbishop Henry Chichele, founder of All Souls College, Oxford. In the 20th century, says the author, "we must be compassionate to them...
...says the Kaddish over his corpse, ending with a blasphemous but heartfelt "son of a bitch"). But for Kushner's polemical purposes, Cohn's greatest evil was his willingness to tolerate, in fact promote, discrimination against gays even as he secretly enjoyed boundless gay sex. He is embodied with robust humor and seductive malevolence by Kushner and actor Ron Leibman, who make Cohn a villain-one- loves-to-hate, like Richard III but slipperier and funnier. In the best passage, Cohn asserts he is not a gay man at all but a heterosexual who sleeps with men. Gays, he explains...
Those freewheeling good times are distant now. His health is good, his career robust, but Vidal seems like a lion in winter. He feels that the populist causes he fought for all his life died with Lyndon Johnson. He is confident that Bush will lose the election, largely because of his stand on abortion, but he despairs of Bill Clinton's shaking up the economy sufficiently or reversing the incursions on civil liberties and women's rights made in the name of family sanctity by what he calls the Party of God, consisting mostly of Republicans, but Democrats as well...
...readers' champion in my office, the person who is concerned that they get their magazine every week, that occasional problems with billing are corrected quickly, and that readers are reminded -- just often enough -- when their subscriptions are running out. It's also his job to keep circulation robust by bringing new people to our subscriber list. As he describes his role, "My job is to introduce prospective customers to TIME. After that the editors do the work...