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...hear someone like themselves instead of, say, someone like Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. And record companies like it because women tend to buy more records than men. "Years ago, there used to be a stigma held by rock-radio programmers against playing too many female artists," says Bob Waugh, assistant programming director at modern-rock radio station WHFS in Washington. "Now there has been such an explosion of female artists and female-led bands coming to prominence that the perception has changed...
...under the Prince of Wales and Caroline [in the early 1800s], with the Whigs attending on the Princess of Wales and the Tories perhaps attending on the Prince of Wales. [That's a] way of keeping the monarchy alive. Otherwise it will lapse into boredom." AUBERON WAUGH, novelist, editor, the Literary Review...
Allan Piper's lanky Hamlet resembles a figure from an Evelyn Waugh novel, dressed in Edwardian finery and scribbling in a little notebook he keeps in his breast pocket. His initial monologues are compelling and his command of the verse consistently excellent. As the play progresses, however, Piper seems to run out of emotions: he alternates between declamation and manis, with little variation...
...from the first. The travel industry cherishes Piety 1. The traveler drifts through the world trying to fend off the truth of Piety 2, which declares itself in spasms of denied disappointment. At worst, a nostalgic heartache goes to work, the travel snob's regret, grandchild of an Evelyn Waugh-Somerset Maugham steamship elitism. Lucretius wrote: "Whenever a thing changes and alters its nature, at that moment comes the death of what it was before." A new metaphysic of distances and destinations has taken over the world...
...flap is less about the novel--a boisterous tale that Evelyn Waugh might have written were he resurrected as a Monty Python--than about Amis, 45, a best-selling writer undergoing some serious midlife changes. First, he left his well-bred, moneyed American wife of nine years, Antonia Phillips, 43 (with whom he has two sons, ages 8 and 10), for a younger American girlfriend. She is Isabel Fonseca, the financially robust, thirtyish daughter of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and granddaughter of the late New York philanthropist Jacob Kaplan...