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...drift toward a dispiriting conclusion. Watching the documentary, I was struck by the intelligence in Kennedy's and Nixon's eyes - very different forms of intelligence, of course, but two different expressions of the real thing. Kennedy and Nixon both had terrible defects (more than anyone knew at the time). Kennedy's beautiful facade concealed a weirdly reckless sex life and potentially fatal disease (Addison's). Nixon had his own shadows (less well disguised...
...Givon, past Ramot on the edge of Jerusalem, right near Ramallah. She said that after the lynching, she took her three children and moved in with her mother. She took everything that was valuable to her--photographs and jewelry--because she was afraid the house might get ransacked. It struck me that where she lives is not a stereotypical religious settlement. Givon is basically secular and affluent...
...port. FBI agents took the film for processing but, so far, don't think anyone got a shot of the bomb boat as it pulled alongside the Cole. Last week the Navy revised its time line of the attack, suggesting that the Cole had already moored when the bombers struck. The FBI hopes the bomb boat was photographed shortly before. Such pictures could reveal the bombers' faces...
...time and gravity as making them seem irrelevant, burnishing the Fosse moves into the classic permanence of a Van Gogh swirl or a Beethoven crescendo. In preserving Fosse's spirit, she preserved her own. She knew that they were both creatures of the living theater, of the lightning that struck but once, inevitably reduced by film and electric furniture. "Watch him move," she'd say of Bob. "He knows the joke." Clearly, so did Gwen. Remember her astonishing finish to Sweet Charity's If They Could See Me Now, laughing at her own impossible finale, knowing that this moment...
Buechner did not venture an answer to my question about the meaning of "great laughter." Difficult enough to talk about grace; impossible to explain laughter. We passed on to a discussion of secrets. I thought again of the humorless man I had met, and it struck me his affliction amounted to a form of stupidity. Stupidity, too, is one of the mysteries...