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...married one of L.A.'s richest lawyers. Thomas has held fund raisers for John Edwards, Barbara Boxer and Al Franken, but she's best known for running a salon called the L.A. Café out of her house. Once a month she invites people who run liberal organizations to speak in front of people who like to give money to people who run liberal organizations. I like to think that somewhere just down the street, Bo Derek is doing the same thing for Republicans, only with dolls and fake money...
...ASEAN's nine other members not to at least arch an eyebrow when Burma signed the charter is nothing short of willful ignorance. Yes, ASEAN did speak forcefully on July 20 when Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said the bloc's members felt "deep disappointment" that Burma in May prolonged the detention of opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But any mention of that negative emotion was excised from the formal communiqué issued by ASEAN the following day. And an initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told...
...last week's episode of Murphy Brown (arguably the most politically correct show on TV, now that Designing Women is gone), a newscaster got into trouble for calling a female fighter pilot a ''girl.'' Audience members at a town-hall meeting later overreacted with a torrent of p.c.-speak: a tall woman with glasses, for instance, demanded to be called ''vertically enhanced'' and ''visually challenged.'' The p.c. backlash is spreading across the cultural plains. A newly expanded edition of The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, written by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf, has just come out, with its tongue...
...chin for his boss. Just last week he was lambasted for reshuffling the White House speechwriting department, easing out two of the top wordsmiths, in order to make it more to his pragmatic leanings than to those of the resident ideologues like Patrick Buchanan. Many in Congress speak wistfully of the days when James Baker ran the White House and there was a lot more cajoling and stroking. But Regan appears on his way to becoming another of those people in this Administration whose political obituaries were premature. Regan, perhaps the second most powerful man in the Government, will probably...
...have long been a specialty, and he recorded a memorable set in 1964 with Bernard Haitink and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra. This ''Emperor'' was recorded in Dresden in late 1984 and is vintage Arrau. Like Schnabel, Arrau believes that the best interpretation is the one that lets the music speak most directly to the listener. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music (L'Oiseau-Lyre). Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7. Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra (RCA). No greater contrast can be imagined. Original Instrument Specialist Hogwood offers light, fleet, graceful...