Word: svengalied
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...time, he said, "when things began to get interesting." Among other things, he had chaired a meeting of the Cabinet in Reagan's absence, a symbol of the President's intense trust in his judgment on economic matters. One congressional Democrat describes him as being "like Svengali, like Rasputin to the Tsar." But others are awed by his incisive intelligence and command of numbers. Chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping weak coffee, Stockman last Friday discussed with TIME Correspondent David Beckwith his next challenge: helping persuade both Houses to accept the second round of budget cuts...
...have always thought of her as essentially a lyric soprano, including Freni. Says she: "When I started, I thought Mozart and La Bohème would be the maximum for me." For challenging her to expand her range she credits Karajan, the controversial, magisterial Austrian conductor who has played Svengali to her Trilby. It was with Karajan at La Scala that she came to international attention, singing Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli's 1963 production of La Bohème, and it has been with Karajan at his Salzburg Festival that she premiered some of her weightier roles, like Aida...
...eliminate two of the candidate's most loyal retainers, Lyn Nofziger and, of all people, Deaver. Not until his unexpected defeat in the Iowa caucuses in January did Reagan really rebel. He was also annoyed by the way the press was playing up Sears as a kind of Svengali, and the candidate as Trilby...
Then in 1972 something equally important happened: she met Aaron Russo, 36, a New Yorker and a rock promoter. He yelled like her father, she says, and he was her lover for six months, her man ager for six years, and her Svengali all the time. "Make me a legend!" Bette told him, and he did, or almost did. Like Alan Bates, who plays Rose's tyrannical man ager in the movie, Russo dominated Bette's life and her career, in terms of the job his advice was impeccable. Until The Rose, he turned down every film role...
Born Actress. But Ivy should have read Auchincloss on the natural superiority of women over 40. Elesina grows into the job as mistress of Broadlawns and proves more formidable than her Svengali. As a born actress, she instinctively understands that the world is more than a stage- it is an audience. Her repertoire enlarges. She tutors herself in art history and is both dutiful wife to the aging, impotent Irving and ardent lover of his son David. Elesina knows how to balance passion and Pragmatism: What was all of Broadlawns and its treasure compared to a lover like that...