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Politics replaced theology as his obsession, and in 1970, Stockman abandoned his pursuit of a doctorate to join Congressman John Anderson's office in Washington. He soon became a senior adviser on fiscal affairs, learning his economics chiefly from literature of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
The best qualities of this Lolita gather in its closing scene, to end the evening of literary vampirism on an up-beat note. Albee faithfully recreates Nabokov's part-farcical, part-horrifying murder scene: as the last act of his love-obsession, Humbert tracks down and decides to kill the...
In the end this Lolita suggests very simply that Nabokov's is not a novel for the stage. In print the author can swathe the transgression he is describing in bundles of carefully selected sentences that, by explaining, defending, or indicting Humbert's obsession, make us ponder its meaning. On...
And this joy is infectious, and, combined with their refined style often makes for superb concerts. A cappella singing is an acquired taste, but the Kroks' impeccable song selection (mostly Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers stories of love and destruction), pleasing harmonies and prissily risque patter, all in...
Brooke's likability is worth emphasizing because her mother has molded her life from the beginning in ways that seem frightful when retold. Teri, 47, was divorced from Frank Shields, 39, now a vice president of a New York executive head-hunting firm, after five months of marriage. She...