Word: vidal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lewinskys' divorce came just as Monica entered Beverly Hills High School. Eden Sassoon, 24, and the daughter of celebrity hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, was a classmate who would often have Lewinsky over to her house. "She was not my best friend. She was sort of a hanger-on," says Sassoon. "She was very outgoing, sweet, charming. If you needed anything, she'd always help. Growing up in Beverly Hills, well, you know it's different, and perhaps being overweight, she'd overcompensate to please...
Consider the historical novels of James Michener, Gore Vidal and Hermann Wouk, or films such as Glory, about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, and Oliver Stone's JFK. All of these works carry political messages, as do many academic works of history. But these messages are intimately bound to their historical vehicle. Glory, for example, could only work with its Civil War setting. Likewise, JFK, as outlandish as its interpretation of the Kennedy assassination may be, nevertheless attempts to participate in the historical dialogue and inquiry, through an unorthodox, non-academic medium...
...embarrassment of riches, the agency had, for the last 18 months, been bitterly fighting a Freedom of Information lawsuit brought by the Federation of American Scientists. But it relented late Wednesday, and released its spending figures for the last fiscal year ? ending 50 years of secrecy in what Gore Vidal has called "the National Security state...
...What do you feel like doin' tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like doin' tonight?"). The film version won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1955, and Hollywood was soon combing Philco Playhouse for other scripts: The Bachelor Party, The Catered Affair, The Rainmaker and Gore Vidal's The Death of Billy the Kid (filmed as The Left-Handed Gun) and Visit to a Small Planet...
...then, live anthologies were giving way to filmed westerns. Coe worked on Playhouse 90 (his big hit: Days of Wine and Roses), but what Vidal called "a golden age for the dramatist" was over. So was Coe's influence on the televiewer's weekly diet. On Broadway he produced The Miracle Worker and All the Way Home; in the movies he directed A Thousand Clowns. But by his 50th birthday Coe had become a cultural afterthought. He died...