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Phillips has a new novel underway titled The Shadow Life. The book is a love story about the relationships between the heroine Mona, her war veteran boyfriend, and her two close female friends. Phillips's characters are much closer to her own age this time: the story begins when the women graduate from high school and follows their lives for the next ten years. Phillips has set aside this novel in order to finish her dissertation and receive her degree. When she graduates she intends to return to finish The Shadow Life and return to California...
...most memorable partnerships was with his shadow self (in Cover Girl), another was with a cartoon mouse (in Anchors Aweigh). He danced on roller skates and garbage-can lids (It's Always Fair Weather). And then, of course, there was that umbrella, that downpour, that bepuddled street and that befuddled cop, out of which he and Stanley Donen, his creative partner in all these enterprises, created Singin' in the Rain's signature sequence--and one of the movies' most privileged moments...
...opinion-framing tendencies of the media and to evaluate individually and fairly the First Lady of the United States? The real problem for suspect political figures in general and for Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular is that more often than not, suspicion equals guilt. Once the media casts its shadow of doubt across one's political resume, the practical verdict--namely, how that individual will now be viewed--is sealed...
...case of Hillary Rodham Clinton, glimpses of the shadow appeared the moment Jeff Gerth's article in The New York Times was printed on March 8, 1992, the first investigative report questioning the Clintons' involvement with Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and the Whitewater Development Company. This report marked the beginning of the end for Mrs. Clinton, during which she would gradually be subjected to the grueling fate of a suspect politician. Her political competence, integrity and trustworthiness were instantly colored by the doubt the media channeled to the public...
...shadow of last summer's decision by the Board of Regents of the University of California to repeal affirmative action in the nine-campus system, Rudenstine is almost negligent in his fourth argument for affirmative action. Although he admits that "the potential for unfairness exists," he quickly glosses over that and then reiterates his points that admissions must take into account a wide variety of characteristics and that admissions decisions about individuals must be made in the context of the whole...