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...same day in 1985). Other highlights of this week's issue include some familiar names and some unfamiliar juxtapositions: Jay Leno and Gloria Steinem offer the President some free advice; fallen campaign strategist Dick Morris urges Clinton to stick to the center in his second term; playwright Wendy Wasserstein has some light-hearted tips for the First Lady; Slate editor Michael Kinsley puts Clinton's victory in historical per-spective; and investigative reporter James Stewart explores how scandal could derail Clinton's second term...
...BOOKS . . . THE POWER OF BEAUTY: Reading Nancy Friday's the Power of Beauty (HarperCollins; 589 pages; $27.50) can make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author1s analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in, says TIME's Wendy Wasserstein. What do I look like perusing this book? Am I envious of younger women whose toned arms could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality...
Playwright Wendy Wasserstein won a 1989 Pulitzer Prize for The Heidi Chronicles...
...also interesting to watch the different attitudes and approaches of guests to the young man standing obediently in the corner. While some have completely ignored me, and others treated me like they might a busboy, Cokie Roberts and Wendy Wasserstein were charming. I had a 15-minute conversation with The New Yorker's baseball writer, Roger Angell '42, much of it even before we began discussing the philosophy classes we'd taken in Emerson Hall. And watching the interview of a political pundit who preceded him on the show, James Cann asked me, as Sonny Corleone himself might have, "What...
Children's book writing is becoming the new arrow in the celebrity quiver. This spring brings the debut of several children's authors, including playwright WENDY WASSERSTEIN, radio host Garrison Keillor and New Age guru MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. Jamie Lee Curtis' and TIM BURTON's next books are due out in the fall; and Julie Andrews (pen name: Julie Edwards) and RICKI LAKE both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they...