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...exhilarating sense of place, a sheer Americanness that gives it its own soul and roots. More important, Ginny and Rose are not villains. Smiley has had Lear at the back of her mind since she first read the play. "I never bought the conventional interpretation that Goneril and Regan were completely evil," she says. "Unconsciously at first, I had reservations: this is not the whole story...
...daughters are sons, and one of them tells the old man that his children are what he made them. Smiley began reading commentaries about the play, especially by feminists, and was miffed to find that even the most radical rejected Shakespeare's terrible twosome: "A remark condemning Goneril and Regan was de rigueur...
Reducing North's opus took work, but Barry has practice. In 1988 he whittled down For the Record, the memoir of former White House chief of staff Donald Regan; last year he excerpted Reagan's autobiography. "Barry did such a masterly job on those that there was no question who should handle North's book," says executive editor Ronald Kriss, who oversaw this project, having cut down a number of works himself. Indeed, so apparent is Seaman's editing talent that in June he was made a senior editor, a much more logical event to have put on his agenda...
...think so. To put in grand opera at the climax, a CIA dope negotiator giving all the information on Bush's relation with Noriega and Don Regan, his security advisor, dealing with Felix Rodriguez--that is useful to have in a grand opera. It is not only of transitory interest but it is also typical time capsulation. People will look back and say "So that was what was happening...
...Named as Reagan's chief of staff in February 1987 when Don Regan was held responsible for the "chaos" in the White House after the Iran-contra revelations...