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...disclosures appear in Divided Lives (Simon & Schuster; $23), by a close friend of Worby's, Washington Post reporter Elsa 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...
While President Bill Clinton has made no threat to veto the legislation, the Administration has misgivings about it. "This bill does a lot to the consumer but not much for the consumer," says Greg Simon, the chief domestic-policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore. Simon argues that allowing media moguls such unrestricted privileges would create "the Pottersville effect," after the dream sequence in It's a Wonderful Life. "Jimmy Stewart comes back, and Potter owns the whole town," Simon says. "That's what we're talking about here...
...Corliss, "an album needs only one great song. Medusa has two." The first, a cover of "No More 'I Love You's,'" is an evocation of love's demons in which a woman's bed of sad passion telescopes into a child's bedroom fears. A reworking of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" closes out the album and answers the pessimism of the first tune with a simple, stately vocal reworking of Simon's lyrics: "Some people never say the words 'I love you,'/But like a child I'm longing to be told...
...Philanderer is more satisfying. Simon Bradbury is an overburdened lover who seeks to detach himself from one woman while securing himself to another. He makes an appealing Don Juan; short and tousled, he comes across as a sort of Machiavellian teddy bear...
McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans--distinguished or infamous--whose interbraided destinies make up the story of The Nightingale's Song (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide. The other protagonists: Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Oliver North and James Webb...