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...capital, Correspondent Alessandra Stanley helped to cover the White House and later the Bethesda Naval Hospital. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett, drawing on his five years of Ronald and Nancy Reagan-watching, was aided by Correspondent Barrett Seaman in collaring Administration aides. For News Editor Blackman, who first alerted us to the story, the events of last week brought a sense of déjà vu. As a Washington-based Associated Press correspondent in 1981, she filed the first news bulletin that Ronald Reagan had been shot...
...worth an estimated $250 million, according to his lawyer, end up in a $300-a-month Galveston apartment in a death struggle with an elderly seaman? The eldest child of Seymour Durst, a New York City real estate tycoon, Durst was 7 years old when he reportedly saw his mother Bernice fall to her death from the roof of their home in what may have been a suicide. In 1972 he married Kathleen McCormack, a beautiful dental assistant. The couple had a history of violent confrontations, and on Jan. 31, 1982, she vanished. Then on Christmas Eve 2000, Durst...
...voyage was a bit peculiar: he spent most of his time after that fateful visit to Borobudur toiling in the City of London as an investment-fund manager. Although he had previously spent two years in the Royal Navy, he himself admits that he's not much of a seaman. He's no scholar of ancient shipping and had spent little time in Indonesia before he started building his ship...
...look at the new Washington, Cage and Clooney films is to see the actors' personalities reflected and refracted in their directorial work. Antwone Fisher, at heart an interview between a Navy psychiatrist (Washington) and a troubled, gifted young seaman (Derek Luke) in search of a father figure, has the thoughtfulness, the heroic withholding of rage that Washington the actor has lent to so many of his characters. The movie (from a true story, written by the real Antwone Fisher) takes its power from the authenticity of its emotions. The director is typically modest about his effort. He says, "I like...
...Considering the time and place, I imagine those 45 were illiterate, low-skilled laborers subject to managerial whims and 19th century downsizing. And it is most certainly the story of the black slave York, who also cast votes during this allegedly democratic adventure. It's even the story of Seaman, the domesticated Newfoundland dog who must have been a welcome and friendly presence and who survived the risk of becoming supper during one lean time or another. The Lewis and Clark Expedition was exactly the kind of multicultural, trigenerational, bigendered, animal-friendly, government-supported, partly French-Canadian project that should...