Word: subject
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Every time one thinks the country has wearied of O.J., evidence arises to prove that plenty of people still find the subject compelling. Books about the case keep climbing best-seller lists; erstwhile O.J. friends still give prime-time interviews to the likes of Barbara Walters; dozens of cameras greet the parade of witnesses who have been entering the courtroom since the civil trial began on Oct. 23. And last week, with Simpson on the stand, the tangled tale was back on the front pages, back on Nightline and Larry King Live, back as a staple of our dinner-table...
...artist from birth to the brink of a masterpiece. In the second volume, A Life of Picasso: 1907-1917 (Random House; 500 pages; $55), Richardson begins with the painting that revolutionized 20th century art and goes on to portray the most productive and aesthetically innovative decade of his subject's life. Reading this story is akin to being allowed behind the scenes at an apotheosis...
...general knowledge of what happened in mid-19th century America. Like Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, I have concluded "Alas,...That day has [not] arrived," but for a different additional reason. We should have known better in our times to bring up the subject when the very integrity of history is so much at risk. --Walter S. Rowland '61 Wilmington...
...Years of public face-time as feisty U.N. ambassador, and she knows the subject; friend of Hillary; goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand...
...litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies and, yet deeper, to the disconcerting affinities...