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...flit by on the radio whenever a disc jockey feels guilty or important. "It Ain't Me, Babe," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Just Like a Woman," and the other early folk-rock crossover songs that established Dylan as a popular artist as well as an intellectual hero resonate as you stare at the words on the page. At once they seem to be both more and less than what they are when sung...
...DECEMBER 3, and brother is it cold. Icicles are beginning to form on my eyebrows as I stare in amazement at the long line of people who are braving near-zero temperatures for the chance to see Rocky IV, the latest installment in what has become America's favorite myth. It takes more than cold weather to kill off a legend in the making. I consider elbowing to the front of the line to pick up my press tickets and head for a cup of coffee, but the people waiting at the ticket booth do not look like the sort...
...opera world, where gossip is a way of life, Battle is said to live up to her last name. By reputation she is a temperamental prima donna who can be cold or even hostile to colleagues, a master of the brisk nod or, worse, the blank stare. Backstage, Met staffers are still talking about her dustup with Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa during the production of Strauss's Arabella. Battle, it seems, wanted some cuts in the music restored, at which Te Kanawa balked. Heated words were exchanged. Battle claims to be mystified by her fearsome reputation. Says...
...keeps track of this monster? What does it look like, feel like? At the White House a few years ago, I ran the question casually by the President. He gave me a blank stare...
Grant remembered it all on the porch of a cottage at Mount McGregor in the foothills of the Adirondacks in the summer of 1885, 100 years ago. He was dying of cancer. As he sat in a silk top hat, reassembling the past, tourists came to stare at him from a little distance. He let them watch, even wanted them to. So many planes of the public and the private intersected in Grant: the obscure American failure who saved the Union. Now, at the last, the shabby embarrassment who was also the first genius of industrial warfare made the intimate...