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Pursuits & Retreats
June 2005 Atlantic Monthly
A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy Who's WhoVolume 295 no. 5 / June 2005 Abernathy, Ralph, as Beat associate, 126; Kissinger and, 126 Alexandra, nominal affluence of, 35 Annan, Kofi, redemption of, 46 Arledge, Roone, as Geraldo nemesis, 91; restroom reconciliation and, 98 Arnett, Peter, banishment of, 95 al-Asad, Bashar, Syrian president, towering badness of, 42 Bachner, Evan, on naval homoeroticism, 109 Barthes, Roland, as textual urbanist, 82 Bin Laden, Osama, as Geraldo nemesis, 90; as-yet-unbronzed head of, 90 Bismarck, Otto von, restraint of, 50; as lord of the Pacific, 50, 54 Blair, Tony, mass graves and, 70; as post-Thatcherite, 131 Bono, as squeaky wheel, 130 Brokaw, Tom, as Geraldo nemesis, 90, 92, 96 Brown, Pat, California governor, as free spender, 102; as plumber-in-chief, 102; sweetness of, 102; vivacity of, 102 Byron, Lord, mismatched legs of, 115; agonizing influence of, 115-118; egoism of, 116; sexuality of, 118 Caine, Michael, as relative titan, 130; Beverly Hills exile of, 130 Callaghan, James, British PM, as publican, 130; sunniness of, 130-131; wintry obliviousness of, 130-131; as polymathic footnote, 131; as teen bureaucrat, 131; as declinist, 131; as farmer, 131 Capone, Al, as Alcatraz resident, 80; barren vault of, 89, 91 Carson, Johnny, as Geraldo nemesis, 98 Carter, Jimmy, as Geraldo interlocutor, 91; as relative titan, 131; cloudiness of, 131 Casanova, as complex fellow, 118 Castro, Fidel, as gay icon, 76-78; as Geraldo interlocutor, 91 Churchill, Winston, on decline, 103 Clark, Ramsey, as U.S. attorney general, 66; as Saddam legal counsel, 66 Clinton, Bill, midterm comeback of, 40; resonant girth of, 84; defensive drift of, 103-104; terrorism and, 104 Couric, Katie, game face of, 89 Crawford, Joan, fading beauty of, 99; as combat standard, 99 Damon, Johnny, enjoined coif of, 13 Dantès, Edmond, escape of, 80 Davies, Marion, Hearst mistress, as muse of bad taste, 81 Dickens, Charles, as Microsoft consultant, 76 Donahue, Phil, soothing manner of, 91 Downs, Hugh, as Geraldo straight man, 90 Dumas, Roland, former French foreign minister, as Saddam attorney, 66; as publicity hound, 66 Emanuel, Rahm, as rising star, 40 Escher, M. C., as sociologist, 112 Farrell, J. G., novelist, freakish death of, 102; gallows humor of, 102; as absurdist, 102; as Austenean, 102; as proto-post-colonialist, 103 Finster, Howard, moth crucifix and, 109 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, as Tinseltown skeptic, 101; on Bill Clinton, 104 Folkenflik, David, as Geraldo nemesis, 94-95 Follett, Wilson, as language lodestar, 128 Ford, Gerald, realism of, 54 Franken, Al, debatable clownishness of, 118; deadly seriousness of, 118 Frist, Bill, as parliamentary Strangelove, 36 Fuchs, Daniel, as writer's writer, 101; as as substitute teacher, 101; as screenwriter, 101-102; as Oscar winner, 101; tanned children of, 101; hard lyricism of, 101-102 Gingrich, Newt, as kneecapper, 38 Ginsberg, Allen, sudden birth of, 78; as Kissinger adviser, 126; as nudist, 126 Haldeman, H. R., as keeper of secrets, 122 Hartley, L. P., as posterity geographer, 130 Hayworth, Rita, as drag template, 78 Hearst, William Randolph, bombastic kitsch of, 81; as baptist, 81; regurgitative properties of, 81; as second Noah, 82 Hendrix, Jimi, as curator, 75 Hughes, Karen, as Boomerang Mom, 113 Hugo, Victor, as Microsoft consultant, 76; as flaneur, 82 Hussein, Saddam, staged capture of, 65; selflessness of, 65; as victim, 65-67; as latter-day de Gaulle, 67; as gardener, 70; as poet, 70 Joyce, James, as Microsoft consultant, 76 Kennedy, Robert F., as Alcatraz repo man, 79; as wiretapper, 122-124 Kerouac, Jack, as Greyhound mascot, 81 al-Khasawneh, Ziad, Saddam attorney, as conspiracy theorist, 65-67, 70-72; potbelly of, 66; grounding contradictions of, 72; as carnival barker, 72; threat of dismemberment extended toward, 72 Kissinger, Henry, on Bismarck, 50; eavesdropping secretaries of, 119-126; charm of, 119; sensitivity of, 119-126; lunch tabs of, 119-120; as tattletale, 122; as Beat associate, 126; diplomatic nudity and, 126 Lee, Robert E., pinup potential of, 99 Lennon, John, Geraldo and, 91 Lermontov, Mikhail, Byronic nature of, 115-118; as Pushkin heir, 115, 117; as Scotsman, 115; Casanova complex of, 118; possible homosexuality of, 118; gendered destiny of, 118 Levitt, Steven, freakonomist, on baby names, 35 Madonna, as one-name wonder, 89; toddling accessory of, 113 Mao Zedong, optimism of, 30 McCarthy, Eugene, as Beat associate, 126; Kissinger and, 126 McGovern, George, free fall of, 122 Midler, Bette, as Geraldo lover, 91 Miller, Henry, shrine of, 81 Moran, Sherwood F., interrogator, as good cop, 32-35; as mosaicist, 35; enlightened hard-boiledness of, 35 Mozart, Wolfgang, as prenatal specialist, 106 Nabokov, Vladimir, as splitter of hairs, 115 Nelson, Horatio, as Geraldo of the sea, 94 Nemo, sub captain, as interior decorator, 94 Nicholas I, as literary critic, 117 Nixon, Richard, realism of, 54, 62; unkickability of, 102; transparency and, 119; bastards and, 125 Odets, Clifford, as Tinseltown skeptic, 101 Pelosi, Nancy, lousy sales skills of, 36; empty pep of, 36; "vapid response" of, 40; hopeful complacency of, 36-40 Peskowitz, Miriam, maternal taxonomy of, 113 Powell, Anthony, on the locality of all politics, 117 Pushkin, Aleksandr, as duelist, 115, 118; Ethiopian ancestry of, 115; as sellout, 117 Qaddafi, Aisha, Muammar's little girl, as Saddam attorney, 66 Reagan, Nancy, as prompter, 76 Reagan, Ron, stem-cell stemwinder of, 76; jean jacket of, 76; fleet feet of, 76 Reagan, Ronald, slimming mandate of, 83-84; as turning point, 102; complexity of, 130 Reichenbach, François, French filmmaker, as Sex O'Clock USA auteur, 76 Reid, Harry, as Smothers Brother, 36; as milquetoast, 36-40; whorehouse laundry and, 38; as mob target, 38; hopeful complacency of, 36-40 Rivera, Geraldo, as punch line, 89; recycled buttocks of, 89; as mariner, 89-90; parachuting parents of, 89; as Capone victim, 89, 91; self-awareness of, 90; Hispanicization of, 91; private island of, 91, 96; money tree of, 91; bar-mitzvah hookers and, 91; as first responder, 94; romantic persistence of, 95; Socrates and, 96; as Rather fan, 96; as Afghanophile, 96; tattooed biceps of, 96; as counterinsurgent, 98; as Roger Clemens, 98; as "example to us all," 98 Robbo, Red, British union leader, unpredictability of, 130 Rose, Axl, as sentinel, 110 Sade, Marquis de, machinery of, 76 Scharff, Hans Joachim, interrogative Nazi, charm of, 32 Schlafly, Phyllis, innocence of, 110 Schumer, Charles, as rising star, 40 Scott, Sir Walter, as hero of his time, 115 Shriver, Maria, as Boomerang Mom, 113 Sidey, Hugh, ill-advised confidences of, 122 Silber, Joan, verbal gymnastics of, 117; as seasoned seasoner, 117 Starr, Kenneth, as MoveOn target, 79 Starr, Kevin, as tour guide, 82; as private eye, 83; poolside reverie of, 102 Stewart, Jon, game face of, 89 Stewart, Martha, as one-name wonder, 89 Stroud, Kandy, society reporter, as muckraker, 119-120 Stroud, Robert, as Birdman of Alcatraz, 80 Thatcher, Margaret, slimming mandate of, 83-84; as mum, 131; as smasher of working classes, 131 Updike, John, as Booker nominee, 13; as Fuchs fan, 101; impishness of, 101 Vandenburg-Kipling, Suzanne, as mom to end all moms, 106, 113 Vermeer, as acid fiend, 109 Washington, George, fevered flight of, 38 Wells, Seething, punk poet, as personalizer of the political, 131 Whitman, Walt, as clanking trope, 113 Williams, Montel, as Geraldo progeny, 91 Willmott, H. P., naval expert, on battleship subtlety, 62-64 Young, Sean, as Catwoman, 110 Zeta-Jones, Catherine, yumminess of, 113 Benjamin Healy is an Atlantic Monthly deputy managing editor.
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