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Consider the pace of Michele Ward, 26, and Kenneth Hoffman, 31, top executives at different Connecticut management-consulting firms. "The prime purpose of our answering machine at home is so we can keep in touch with each other," says Ken of their jammed schedules. For pleasure, they sail and "cook seriously together," whipping up veal Normandy or Persian duck in pomegranate sauce. They subscribe to four gourmet magazines and have a collection of 150 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but, practically speaking, I don't see how," says...
...Butler Saw) that subverted old genres and modern society with a cheekily amoral wit. Now Alan Bennett has dramatized Orton's life in Prick Up Your Ears, based on John Lahr's nifty biography. Both works take their title from a farce Orton planned to write. The title was Ken...
...titles were Ken's. When they met in 1951, Ken, seven years older, was the voluptuary eager to instruct his new roommate in the love of art and the art of love. Ken would be Oscar Wilde, and Joe his protege and best beau. Then a funny thing happened: Ken may have wanted to live like Wilde, but Joe learned to write like him. And believing that "anything worth doing is worth doing in public," Joe shared his sexuality with all comers, while Ken was left at home to stew in his rancor. He was the "first wife," the spurned...
John Shattuck is Harvard's vice president for government, community and public affairs. Ken Gewertz writes about public affairs for the Harvard News Office...
...George Plimpton Celebrity Challenge Cup Harness Race held recently at the Pompano Harness Track in Pompano Beach, Fla., was just such an event. There was a fruit pudding of celebrities: George Plimpton, the author and New York City bon vivant; George Steinbrenner, the New York Yankees' Teutonic owner; Ken Stabler, the former Oakland Raider quarterback; Steve Mizerak, the world champion pool player; Kim Bokamper, the mammoth Miami Dolphin football star; and Oleg Cassini, the aristocratic little Italian fashion designer. Each one of them put on colorful racing silks designed by Cassini and then climbed into harness sulkies. They guided their...