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...earnest questing, Lindbergh was capable of a shocking naivete and obtuseness--or, many thought, something worse. He had a sinister habit of thinking in terms of racial superiorities and inferiorities. During the late '30s, he led the isolationist "America First" forces that sought to keep the U.S. out of European war. Although he undertook an essentially patriotic mission to evaluate Nazi aviation for U.S. authorities, he seemed to make excuses for Hitler, even in the face of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 and other evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht...
...first opera, a three-hour-long adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. Previn, who turned 69 in April, knows he's leading with his chin--nearly all the great opera composers of the past got started in their 20s or 30s--so he has taken out a classy piece of flop insurance: superstar soprano Renee Fleming is singing the role of Blanche Dubois. "Of course it's inhibiting to make an opera out of so famous a play," he says, "but even if you don't like what I've written...
...that the National Cancer Institute has developed a computer program to help you and your doctor make sense of it. Further complicating the picture is the fact that tamoxifen's effects seem to wear out after five years. So when is the best time to take it? In your 30s? Your 40s? Your...
Gordon (Richard E. Grant), a copywriter at a London ad agency in the '30s, thinks of himself as a poet. But no one else is buying. Obsessed with strictures of class (his is "lower upper middle"), he woos his muse while exasperating Rosemary (Helena Bonham Carter), the art director of his ads and the love of his miserable life. If this version of George Orwell's 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying is too sunny for its subject, it provides a field day for the lanky Grant. His Gordon is self-absorbed, fulminating--the angry young man 20 years before...
Mark Weisenmiller described his father as aloving man who really cared about his three sons,all in their 30s...