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...characters' worst sides--their own. The Grand Old Man is W. Somerset Maugham, the British playwright, novelist and essayist, and the Riviera mansion, as well as the drama, is his. Maugham in his lifetime presented his friends and acquaintances with many such little surprises. Today Ted Morgan turns the spotlight back, dazzlingly, into Maugham's eyes. Morgan, in his meticulous biography, sketches the writer as a man who exploited his friends and their lives for material, but rarely dared to offer up his own psyche to such public scrutiny...
...spite of the President's and Congress's pledges to cut spending and balance next year's budget, the murky world of finance held the spotlight because the most immediate effects of the Carter program would be felt by banks and other savings institutions. The President's decision to use the Federal Reserve to slow the growth of credit would pinch every sector of the economy from department-store dishware to heavy-industry assembly lines. Some bankers even feared that a credit crunch, when almost no loan money would be available, could hit by summer. That...
...failings was the tendency to have the Senator out on the trail himself, a sort of Lone Ranger--if you have the spotlight on you five, six times a day, it just gets too much. That's what happened with the Shah statement," Orren said...
Palm tree shadows bent across the canyon road. Sammy stopped at a gate and got out of the car. Rick shivered inside. A spotlight swung through the night and Sammy grinned. This is Beverly Hills, he thought. If he listened hard he could hear the party...
Someone else in this spotlight might be daunted by the big bucks and the pressures they will generate, but evidently not Rather: "I believe I am as good as anybody." That self-confidence worked admirably for him during his more than 18 years at CBS. He rose through the ranks simply by being more aggressive and tenacious than the competition, working as many hours a day as his assignment called for and then adding a few more for good measure. Rather's ascent was also aided by his craggy good looks-no handicap in a visual medium...