Word: vidal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both sides were anxious about the outcome of the conclave. Challenger Corazon Aquino visited the conference Thursday to ask its president, Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, the Archbishop of Cebu, if the bishops would support her plans to begin a campaign of civil disobedience. At 2:30 Friday morning Vidal had another visitor: First Lady Imelda Marcos roused him to ask if the pastoral letter would incite an armed uprising. Vidal reportedly assured her, "We had never entertained any idea of violence...
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN eighth grade social studies and adulthood, America grew to like history. Not the textbook kind or the obscure Robinson Hall kind, but the kind that makes a good TV miniseries. As Barbara Tuchman '33. Gore Vidal and James Michener all know, when the truth is written well, it can be more fun--if not stranger--than fiction...
...Lincoln, Vidal...
...contrast, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and the late Truman Capote thrust their work and themselves into the world of commerce, celebrity, hostility and jealousy. "Envy, envy, envy!" cries Capote. "The people simply cannot endure success over too long a period of time. It has to be destroyed." Not since Benvenuto Cellini has there been a major talent with such a courtier's view of his art. His social timing and instinct for wounding gossip were displayed in published sections of his controversial work in progress, Answered Prayers. He refers to it as his "big ace up my sleeve," though...
Meanwhile, the governor has distanced himself from the national Democratic ticket. Celebrities, not politicians, join him on the trail. Television stars Hal Linden and Bonnie Franklin, singers James Taylor and Peter, Paul and Mary, and hairdresser Vidal Sassoon have appeared on the governor's behalf While both members of the Democratic presidential ticket have flown in for brief rallies and a handful of southern governors have held news conferences boosting Hunt, only Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo) has appeared recently on the governor's behalf...