Word: talese
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If Hansen means these drifting bandsmen and their stories to stand for Europe, as Europe saw itself in the relative calm of 1912, his intention is not insistent. But he did choose to put his musicians aboard the Titanic. So the band plays as the ocean liner sinks--not Nearer...
All through 1994, Jack Kemp traveled the country helping local Republican candidates while collecting chits for his own presidential bid, which he planned to make in 1996. In late October he was in Birmingham, Alabama. The overflow crowd had come to hear the most publicly irrepressible and optimistic G.O.P. politician...
So when we saw the pictures from Russell, Kansas, we decided to give the Republican earthlings their moment in the sun, so to speak. But in the end, the choice was mainly symbolic. Readers get both cover-length packages in this week's magazine. As we continue a year of...
One last question: Who has learned that size doesn't count as much as insouciance? Why, Andrew Lloyd Webber. His By Jeeves, a radical overhaul of his 1975 flop show, is a delight in miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and...
Last summer, I didn't even pretend to start reading a classic. On a bookshelf in Barnes and Noble, I found the first book of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a series set in San Francisco about a group of strangely-paired friends. I was done with the...