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...obsessive fan of the Liverpool Football Club, reminded me of how it felt to be blindly devoted to a boy band. I had the group's posters hung all over the walls of my room when I was little and played their tapes over and over again. I never understood what they were singing about (the pain of being unable to get the love of a girl or how much it hurt to lose her), and the boy band disappeared before I could figure it all out. But the days accompanied by their songs, which now seem totally cheesy...
Even the invitations were cryptic. Printed on shocking-pink paper, they read, "Please come to Madonna and Sean Penn's birthday party Aug. 16. Please be prompt or you'll miss the wedding." Those on the select mailing list understood the reference: the bride would turn 27 on her wedding day, and the bridegroom 25 the day after. The card instructed guests to phone a special number to find out where the supersecret event would take place. Not even the chic caterers knew where to deliver their delights (pizza and curried oysters, Madonna's culinary favorites) until the very last...
...Editors: As a Briton living in the States, I was impressed by your informative yet lighthearted coverage of the royals' visit [PEOPLE, Nov. 11]. You captured the mood inspired by Charles and Di at home, which is seldom understood outside the British Isles. Ronald and Nancy Reagan give the presidency a similar kind of glamour. Politics exists, whoever is at the top. The glitter makes the politics more bearable, even enjoyable. Susan Elliott-Booth Lacey, Wash...
...understand "throw-weights or what is happening in Afghanistan or what is happening in human rights. Most women . . . would rather read the human-interest stuff of what happened." The remarks predictably infuriated feminists and provided news-starved journalists with a few stories. When reporters asked Nancy Reagan if women understood substantive issues, she coolly replied, "I'm sure they do." Even Mikhail Gorbachev leaped in with a politic comment: "Men and women . . . all over the world are interested in having peace and being sure that peace would be kept stable and lasting." In an ironic twist, the President found himself...
There is a dark side to instant communication, already understood by terrorists. In the short run, the cameras can be exploited for propaganda. In the long run, fortunately, the truth asserts itself. Reagan is so certain of the potential of global imagery that he has begun to ponder how best to cast this year's summit in the U.S. so that doubters all over the world can see Gorbachev on the U.S. stage...