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Image: George Bush, globe-trotting foreign-policy President; Bill Clinton, domestically focused stay-at-home President. The reality, however, is that homeboy Bill has flitted about almost as much as cosmopolitan George. And with his first visit to Latin America last week, Clinton surpassed his predecessor. But in the First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 19, 1997 | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Koestenbaum's chapter on "The Shut-in Fan" is poignant testimony to opera's appeal to the pent up and repressed, as well as to the changes that the advent of sound recording brought to the art. With the commencement of Texaco's Saturday broadcasts from the Met and the...

Author: By Jefferson Packer, | Title: The Phantoms of Opera's Divas | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

His list of things to do to cure boredom is pretty preposterous. Here are some things he says you should do instead of watching TV: learn to knit, learn to square dance, take up birdwatching, paint watercolors, learn to fly, visit a shut-in, be a tutor or write a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, I'm Bored. And I Like It. | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

As a matter of fact, I don't even understand half of the things that he lists. Does he want me to walk up to someone on the street and start tutoring them? And what is a shut-in anyway? If it's someone who likes to be left alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, I'm Bored. And I Like It. | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

"On the surface, I don't know what it is about, but in the pit of my stomach I do know what this is about," Hunt said of the play, in which she stars as Rose Hudd, an elderly shut-in whose husband will not speak to her. "It's...

Author: By Ryan W. Chew, | Title: Linda Hunt Speaks to Fans | 4/22/1988 | See Source »

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