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...Seldom has a 99-year-old lady enjoyed such persistent suitors. Ever since the Statue of Liberty's centennial began to loom on the national calendar, New Jersey has reignited an old claim to the woman who has long been considered New York's leading citizen. After all, New Jerseyans argue, she is less than 600 yds. from their shore, but a good 1½ miles from Manhattan...
Well, in the words of old Buddy Holiday, that'll be the day. Springsteen is a superstar, but he is also bent on being a populist, marrying the mythic dimensions of major celebrity to the kind of moral and social responsibility seldom found bobbing in the musical mainstream. "He's closer to his public image than any of the other rock stars I've known," says his friend and biographer Dave Marsh. "It's hard to accept, but the guy is all there in his music." Backstage at a concert, the atmosphere is a little more restrictive, less familial than...
...Editors: As a Briton living in the States, I was impressed by your informative yet lighthearted coverage of the royals' visit [PEOPLE, Nov. 11]. You captured the mood inspired by Charles and Di at home, which is seldom understood outside the British Isles. Ronald and Nancy Reagan give the presidency a similar kind of glamour. Politics exists, whoever is at the top. The glitter makes the politics more bearable, even enjoyable. Susan Elliott-Booth Lacey, Wash...
...heart failure killed him 13 years later. But in that period he summoned up his childhood and adolescence and transformed them into art. His tales were produced with a combination of will, eidetic memory and emotional immaturity. His skills were those of a polished ironist, but his obsessions seldom progressed beyond puberty...
...narrative continually reveals, Adams possessed a rare talent for winning the friendship of brilliant but difficult men and women, including Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps it was because he so seldom raised his voice. The memoir boils over only once, on the subject of the Reagan Administration's environmental policies, which spurred his worst fears about human predators nibbling at the land...