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...young Naipaul driven by a tremendous desire to succeed, who nevertheless vacillates between prideful confidence and fear of the future. He rejects financial help from his family but must turn to them after a reckless spending spree in Spain; he works himself so hard that he is constantly ill and even suffers a nervous breakdown; he becomes depressed following the rejection of his first book by the publishers. These details remind us beyond doubt that there is a fallible human being who exists behind the mystique of the writer...
...Fidel Castro, praising the Cuban Revolution and asking Castro to request that Hemingway return to Cuba. Mailer finally started to come apart at the seams during his campaign. He struck his sister Barbara across the face in an argument, breaking her glasses. After an evening of drunkeness and ill-humor, Mailer stabbed his wife twice, narrowly missing her heart. But his family and wife protectively covered up the incident, and he escaped the incident with his reputation mostly intact and receiving only probation...
Watching Rick Rockwell pluck his insta-bride out of a lineup of seemingly normal women had the gut-wrenching, irresistible allure of driving past a car wreck. Of course, that parallel may not be coincidental; the Fox network, which aired the ill-fated episode of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" is known for its penchant for "reality-based programming," including titles like "When Good Pets Go Bad" and the car wreck-rich "World's Scariest Police Videos." Now, in the wake of creepy allegations about Rockwell and claims of temporary insanity by his erstwhile bride, Fox chairman Sandy...
...White, two people will pay dearly for this verdict. "Rudy Giuliani and Bronx district attorney Robert T. Johnson are going to catch hell for this," says White. "Johnson screwed up this case so badly he'll never be elected again." Many Diallo supporters contend that Johnson's office was ill-prepared to handle this case. Giuliani, whose presumptive campaign for the U.S. Senate could hinge on the crucial New York City vote, was on television moments after the verdict was read. He offered his "sincere sympathy" to Diallo's family and, without irony, extended that same sympathy to the four...
...While one might consider such a locking of horns to be standard fare when bringing together a number of alpha-females and -males into the same extremely cramped workspace, such an analysis would be ill-considered, to say the least. We here at the magazine instead consider such behavior to be the successor to existential crisis in the postmodern milieu. Clearly, we find ourselves trying to wrap our minds around a difficult, nay, hot-buttony issue...