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...Lenny Bruce. By the standard of fame, Phyllis Jenkins doesn?t exactly qualify. Her name doesn?t appear on many Websites; her exploits don?t grace nearly as many biographies and memoirs as they should. Her death earlier this year occasioned an admiring, admirable obituary in the New York Sun, but the New York Times didn?t acknowledge her demise...
...where, she said, Errol Flynn once proposed to her. (She didn?t say what he proposed.) ?By her midteens, Phyllis was regularly getting her photo in the New York Times as a bright young star on the social scene,? we learn from Stephen Miller?s admirable obit in the Sun. ?Adams?s debut [in 1941] was a stunning affair at the St. Regis Roof, reported in full in the Times, with the debutante receiving guests ?before a bower of southern smilax and woodwardia ferns,? and wearing an off-the-shoulder sky-blue gown ?trimmed with small ostrich feathers tipped with...
It’s noon by the time I end up at the train station. When I left, the orange-labeled bottle had disappeared. But Sonja was pouring a glass of white wine for herself and the clay bust of Wagner glistened in the sun. My train speeds south to Nuremberg, and soon I am typing up my coverage of Bayreuth—opening hours, phone numbers and other small details. The morning is driven out of my head...
...sun is warm and Gerlinde’s idea really seems excellent. Soon I have missed the 10 a.m. train. But Richard Wagner is a little closer now. I have found those for whom he is not an elitist pleasure, but just a very regular, if exciting, part of life. As Sonja clucks about a new recording she just bought, and Max asks her to play it for us, I bask in my new understanding of this town...
...that you might read about in National Geographic, those places that it takes three days on foot and canoe and yak to reach. Set on cliffs amid flowing streams and crashing waterfalls, the house at Tomahna is made up of circular pavilions linked by outdoor walkways that pass over sun-dappled water. Birds, butterflies and dragonflies flutter about...