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Beyond all this, Miller remains fascinating because he fulfilled an almost universal male daydream: he married Marilyn Monroe. By his account, he savored her wit and beauty but was driven away by her self-abasing craziness; in the end she was pleading for his return, phoning to ask, as if they had not agreed ! to part, "Aren't you coming home?" He adds, "Her voice now had all its old softness and vulnerability, as though nothing at all destructive had happened in the past four years...
WITH THE exception of a pretentious author's note at the novel's beginning, the entire novel is written in Mgungu's voice. Janowitz tries to endow it with an ironic wit, but instead it comes across as boring and arrogant...
...want to see deficit countries -- to wit, the United States -- move on fiscal deficits and fight protectionism. And we'd like to see surplus countries generating as much growth as possible, consistent with maintaining the gains the world has made against inflation...
...Kennedy and Johnson years. He has never lost his taste for mixing it up in the public economic debate. An engaging speaker, he is also one of the few economists who can write good English. His popular essays and book reviews leaven economic analysis with a dry, cutting wit. "Only someone with a sense of humor could survive reading this book," he began a review of George Gilder's The Entrepreneur as Hero in the New Republic. "And no one with any trace of a sense of humor could have written...
...recent interview, director John Hancock '61 and actor John Toles-Bey spoke about Weeds, their latest film. Soft-spoken Hancock chose his words carefully. Toles-Bey betrayed his background as a Venice Beach street performer with a quick and easy wit. Hancock was forthcoming on the subject of Weeds' portrayals of prisoners, women and Blacks, which some critics say enforce widely held stereotypes...