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...congratulate you on your excellent profile of him. Although I knew that this cover story was coming, I confess I was unprepared for the onslaught of tears that overcame me when I read it. Your report brought back a lot of memories and painted a very vivid picture of Chris' life today. As a journalist, I admired the scope and detail of the piece and the skillful way Chris' accident, therapy and campaign for spinal-cord research were interwoven with the personal aspects of his life and thoughts. You captured the paradox in his driving perfectionism and his unsure self...
DENVER: Try this one on: it seems Gay Balfour, a nearly broke Colorado machinist, had a dream one night. In vivid detail, he saw an enormous yellow truck with a green hose that sucked furry little rodents out of the ground. And wouldn't you know it, the next day he had a job at the Ute Mountain Indian reservation, where the farm's irrigation system was being overrun by prairie dogs. On the way home, he noticed an old sewage truck for sale -->
This is not to say the books are interchangeable. Klein, a contributor to Vanity Fair, uses that magazine's patented "I was there" narrative style to great effect. An acquaintance of Jackie's in the 1980s, Klein offers a reader vivid glimpses of her, as well as poignant descriptions of how she would ask Kennedy allies, such as former Connecticut Governor Abraham Ribicoff and press secretary Pierre Salinger, to talk to John and Caroline about their father...
...real success of the film, however, is in the splendid details--the stereotype-crushingly vivid characterizations, the brilliant satire of modernism that is Celeste's "art," the poster of Maria Callas that Ana snatches from her wall before dashing off to France, the similarities in the many and varied wedding scenes. Altogether, "Celestial Clockwork" is a film that precisely and elegantly constructs a paradise before our eyes...
...that Clinton's loose definition of marriage and fidelity has little effect on his ability to carry out the presidency. But as the seizure of the files demonstrates, there is a definite point where flexible integrity leads to horribly misguided decisions. With the memories of Hoover's FBI still vivid, we cannot help but attribute the seizure of the FBI files to the lack of morality and integrity within the Clinton Administration--a want which evidently traces itself from the lowest administration employees to Clinton himself...