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...actuality of Egyptian history, Cleopatra was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. In American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, such gaudy shamelessness was still a surprise. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. The Queen of the Nile and the Prince of Denmark fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess--except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and Presidents were assassinated...
...actuality of Egyptian history, the Queen of the Nile was never so violet-eyed and opulently creamy. And American popular culture, just emerging from the Eisenhower '50s, had rarely staged such shamelessly excessive scandal. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. Cleopatra and Hamlet fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms, and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess - except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and presidents were assassinated or driven from...
...probably no coincidence that some two years after Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things became an international best seller, more novels by young writers with roots in India are showing up on this side of the world. "Editors will grab at what's in the air," says Sybil Steinberg, fiction editor at Publishers Weekly. But the next Arundhati Roy may not materialize soon. She is a rare delight: a gifted writer who looks like the village beauty in a Satyajit Ray film. Nevertheless, what is called Indian-English fiction hasn't had so much attention since Muslim clerics...
BORN: Aug. 31, 1930, Richmond EDUCATION: Virginia Tech, B.S., 1952; U of Richmond, L.L.B., 1955 FAMILY: Wife, Sybil; three children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; accountant POLITICAL CAREER: Virginia House, 1972-86; U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 2127, Virginia Beach...
...PRESIDENCY HAS BECOME A thankless, ineffective job for egoists. Intelligent, well-respected, highly capable, no-nonsense, truly compassionate candidates shouldn't stoop to apply. Powell deserves better, much better. SYBIL FREEMAN Decatur, Georgia...