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...LIFE OF KENNETH TYNAN by Kathleen Tynan. The widow of the late great theater critic and sexual propagandist is astonishingly frank about her husband's demons and demonettes...
...budget. He would, for example, raise taxes on Social Security benefits for couples earning more than $32,000 a year. "Just as we have had progressive income taxes, we should have progressive Government benefits," Babbitt explains. "Why should the Mellons and the Vanderbilts get the same benefits as a widow living in a cold-water flat?" While cutting entitlement spending, Babbitt would impose a 5% "consumption" tax, basically a national sales tax, which would exempt necessities like food...
...kidney ailment cut short Andropov's tenure in early 1984, Gorbachev was already a candidate to succeed his former mentor. At Andropov's funeral, Gorbachev made a telling gesture of his closeness to the late General Secretary: he was the only Politburo member publicly to console Andropov's bereaved widow Tatyana. But the Old Guard made a final stand, choosing Chernenko instead. Gorbachev went along, and even agreed to make the nominating speech. He probably knew his turn would come soon enough. Ailing and 72, Chernenko was not going to last long. In fact, through much of his year...
...when he died at 80, in 1980, he was widely recognized as a genius. The Theatre Art of Boris Aronson, by Frank Rich with Lisa Aronson (Knopf; 323 pages; $75), shows why. The authors (respectively, the drama critic of the New York Times and the artist's widow) use photos and Aronson's vivid sketches and paintings to document the bulk of his more than 100 designs, including Broadway's The Crucible, The Diary of Anne Frank, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies and Pacific Overtures. The authoritative text evokes the artist's crusty personality and analyzes his ability...
When Bruce Nickell, 52, a state maintenance worker in Auburn, Wash., collapsed and died in June 1986, doctors attributed his death to emphysema. Five days later Susan Snow, another Auburn resident, died after swallowing an Extra- Strength Excedrin capsule that had been laced with cyanide. Nickell's widow Stella told authorities that her husband had taken Excedrin from the same product lot. They concluded that Nickell too was the victim of a cyanide-laced capsule. The two deaths sparked a major criminal investigation and prompted Excedrin manufacturer Bristol-Myers to issue a nationwide recall...