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David James Wright, 38, of Los Angeles remembers the feeling vividly. One evening in 1983, around midnight, he began sweating profusely. Soon, a red rash covered his body and he had trouble breathing. A friend rushed him to an emergency room, but nobody could determine what was wrong. "I was shaking violently," he recalls. "It was a nightmare." Nine days later, however, he felt fine. It was only years later, when he fell seriously ill, that he realized what had happened...
Andrew L. Wright '96 was president of The Crimson...
...verisimilitude in capturing the political spectrum, Primary Colors transcends the genre in creating a plot that departs from literal campaign history to better illuminate Henry Burton's loss of innocence and voyage of self-discovery. The novel pivots around Libby Holden (very loosely inspired by Betsey Wright), the Governor's former chief of staff, fresh from the loony bin, who calls herself "the Dustbuster" and sets about to clean up the mess from the candidate's self-destructive personal life. Holden is the classic truth teller--bound to the Stantons, but also sadly clear-eyed about how their youthful idealism...
...CORRIGAN, 88, aviator; in Orange, California. The high-flying Corrigan broke no records for air speed or distance but set a new standard for sheer gall. In July 1938 federal officials in New York examined Corrigan's aircraft and, deciding it owed more to Rube Goldberg than Orville Wright, refused to approve his planned transatlantic flight. Corrigan agreed to return to California--but once in the air, headed east. Touching down in Ireland 28 hours later, Corrigan, straight-faced but twinkle-eyed, attributed his detour to a faulty compass. This combination of chutzpah and heroism propelled him to international celebrity...
...KLEIN Nicholas Wright's off-Broadway drama apprehends the pioneering child psychologist Melanie Klein at a moment when her life perches above an abyss. It's an exacting role, and famed acting teacher Uta Hagen, at 76, executes a performance that is instructive at every step, advancing through arrogance, rage, bravado, fear...