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...Walsh, who set out to penetrate the ambivalences of three accomplished women as they struggle to balance their professional and private lives. Besides conductor Worby, the book includes chapters on ABC television personality Meredith Vieira and Dr. Alison Estabrook, chief of breast surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. But it was the Worby chapter that provoked its own backlash last week, not only because of Worby's frank discussion of her sexual history (and the tattoo emblazoned on her upper right thigh), but because she demystifies the role of first lady for women of ambition in the late...
Married to Caperton in 1990, Worby seemed ill-fitted to the role from the start. An outsider from New York in a rural state, distressed that her new role was hobbling her career in music, she pined for the cultural environment of Manhattan, where she maintains an apartment. She sought a conducting job in Little Rock, Arkansas, but lost out when some board members attributed her success with the Wheeling Symphony to her marriage to the Governor. Walsh recounts how Worby "insisted to me for nearly a year that she felt loved and embraced as the first lady of West...
Olympian Florence Griffith-Joyner was at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum last week unveiling her CIRCLE OF LIFE, a painting auctioned for charity along with pieces by Ringo Starr and Jane Seymour--all of which will also grace credit cards. Griffith-Joyner's brushwork is similar to her track work. "I can do 10 or 15 canvases a day," she says. And her style? "I've seen a lot of work in this museum like what...
...limos pull up outside the handsome East 63rd Street town house by 8:25 each weekday morning. Within five minutes -- exactly five minutes -- half a dozen regulars at one of Manhattan's most elite breakfast clubs have assembled in a splendidly appointed room graced with a Roy Lichtenstein. Noshing bagels, they obediently await the less punctual arrival of their host and boss, Ronald Perelman, 51, the petulant billionaire-about-town whose empire includes banks, television stations and Revlon cosmetics-as well as holdings such as Coleman camping gear and Pantry Pride supermarkets that are less likely...
...first perusal Thomas Beller's debut short-story collection, Seduction Theory (Norton; 205 pages; $21), appears as though it might be the chic literary equivalent of the TV comedy Friends. Beller, 30, is the co-founder of a talked-about Manhattan fiction journal, Open City, and the characters who people his 10 witty stories are plucked straight from a hyperexposed world of young, well-bred New Yorkers hopelessly flustered by attraction, ever fearful of love...