Word: vidal
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Williams was a compulsive letter writer, often rising in the middle of the night to type messages to his mother or grandfather or to literary colleagues like Gore Vidal and Carson McCullers. The Harvard Theater Collection is the custodian of approximately 1,000 of these missives, according to Curatorial Assistant Michael T. Dumas...
...WHENEVER A FRIEND SUCCEEDS, a little something in me dies," Gore Vidal once said, pretty much covering the subject of envy in a single line. Now Martin Amis has milked the topic for an entire novel. The Information (Harmony; 374 pages; $24) is just appearing in the U.S., two months after its publication in Britain. With it trails a controversy that has kept the London book world jawing for months...
...jokes; when a stuffy Disability administrator asks, "What state were you born in?" Simon answers, "Infancy." He reads Zola. He cooks. He fixes cars. He defends the Constitution brilliantly in a classroom showdown with Money's thesis advisor, that sneering elitist bastard Professor Pitkannan (played with relish by Gore Vidal) who finds the document vulgar and crude...
...this still, peaceful Saturday afternoon, however, there is no trace of Carpenter's clownish side. He is serious, composed, at ease discussing Gore Vidal and his philosophy of life ("I have had no plan for me").Carpenter and I chat a little more about his future hopes-he plans to work for an investment banking firm in New York-and his fears...
...visit to directress/raconteur Erica Werner in her faux-Titian dorm room. Outside it was cold and dreary, but inside we found Ms. Werner in fine fettle, cooing merrily at her Bonsai tree. Clad in a chain-metal sheath and matching elbow-length gloves, both by Gaultier, with hair by Vidal Sassoon, Ms. Werner discoursed savvily on topic ranging from the Knights Templar to the common cold. As always, we were impressed by her smarts. But we were not where we were--that is, in the presence of genius disguised as high fashion--to engage in idle chitchat, but rather...