Word: guested
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UNGRACIOUS GUEST...
...return for spending thousands of dollars on a vacation, wildlife viewers want knowledgeable and personable guides and staff. At Knight Inlet Lodge, the guests applaud the staff, no less attractive than the Baywatch gang, only fully clothed and better educated. Guest Larry Jandrew of Asheville, N.C., who brought a family party of himself and seven others to the lodge, was particularly taken by Meg Pocklington, a Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Center research assistant, who during a long hike through the rain forest took special care of Jandrew's mother-in-law Kitty Conley. Pat Chadwick and Sam Twyford, a retired...
...celebrity speakers before, including such noted intellectuals as Jerry Hall and O.J. Simpson, and the school is still standing. Jackson's appearance, which will take place at the Oxford Union in February, was brokered by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Oxford alum, author of Kosher Sex and frequent Howard Stern radio guest. The two were introduced through mutual friend Uri Geller, famous bender of spoons. "I went to meet him, and, honestly, I fell in love with him," says Boteach. "He truly wants to restore children to the center of their parents' lives." The Oxford Union says, "We are convinced this will...
...deserves a place in his chronicle. He knew or met a number of the real, historical people - Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph Alsop, Tennessee Williams - who move through the pages of "The Golden Age." He has been, for the past half-century, an uncommonly public literary figure: a near ubiquitous television guest and, twice, an unsuccessful candidate for elective office. Living well is Vidal's revenge, which he does much of each year at La Rondinaia, his spectacular house in Ravello perched 200 feet above the Amalfi coast. His mornings are customarily spent writing in a room filled with leatherbound copies...
...Golden Age." As the novel opens in 1940, FDR is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in "Empire" and "Hollywood," is a friend of the Roosevelts and a frequent guest at the White House. She is charmed by the President but also chilled by what she sees as his inexhaustible deviousness. "There is a curse on power," she blurts out to the First Lady. Mrs. Roosevelt replies, "Not when used for others, or so I like to think." And then Caroline...