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...Flesh and the Devil and A Woman of Affairs among her silent films, Queen Christina and Camille among the talkies--will allow younger viewers to take a sip of their grandparents' intoxication. "What, when drunk, one sees in other women," Kenneth Tynan wrote of her, "one sees in Garbo sober...
DIED. PAUL DUKE, 78, veteran political reporter for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News who became a Friday-night fixture on PBS for 20 years as moderator of the sober, erudite journalistic roundtable Washington Week; of leukemia; in Washington...
...next: "By my third birthday, I had logged 150,000 miles, occasion for an AP wirephoto captioned: 'She Sees America.' " She also witnessed an endless string of saloons and her parents' behavior in them: "Pat was a two-fisted drinker. Cy was a drunk, charming and good-humored when sober, combative and cold-eyed when drunk." Liquor fueled fights between them, as did their constant lack of money. They also, Cyra recognized later, baited each other with flagrant infidelities: "Pat and Cy competed in sexual conquest as they competed in everything else...
...pseudo photograph. This sometimes looks false, but it was exactly the kind of falsity that appealed to popular taste, and Homer's watercolors of leaping trout and thrashing bass, the Big Fish dominating the foreground, are a curious conjunction of the merely illustrative and the frenetically decorative. In his sober moods he was rarely off-key. His Adirondack paintings have the astringent completeness of the Michigan woods in early Hemingway. Perhaps no painting has ever conveyed a hunter's anxiety better than Hound and Hunter, with its flustered boy in the dinghy trying to get a rope on a shot...
...press conference, occurring almost simultaneously in a nearby theater, Gorbachev sat behind a wooden table and spoke in sober, measured tones. "I must say the Americans came to this meeting empty-handed," he charged. But Gorbachev held out hope that even the failure in Iceland would produce a new impetus to the arms-control process. "I think the President and ourselves should reflect on this entire situation that has evolved here," he said. "We have traveled a long...