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July/August 2005 Atlantic Monthly
A selective index to this month's issue Compiled by Benjamin Healy Who's WhoVolume 296 no. 1 / Jul.-Aug 2005 Achilles, as Kennedy brother, 89 Albert, Monégasque prince, committed bachelorhood of, 162 Anne, princess, as combat-animal advocate, 156 Aristophanes, "free fornication" utopia conjured by, 135 Astaire, Fred, quid pro quo and, 162 Auden, W. H., as assimilator, 145-148 Augustine, saint, Fondan qualities of, 129 Banda, Hastings, Malawian liberator, imperial suppression tactics of, 38 Bayh, Evan, as marathon man, 42 Blagojevich, Rod, as marathon man, 42 Borges, Jorge Luis, as romantic realist, 141 Bowery, Leigh, performance artist, whole-grain makeup of, 137; urinal headgear of, 137; Madonna and, 137 Bozo, clown, as American icon, 130 Brandt, Boris, reality-TV producer, on Teutonic fertility, 36 Bryan, William Jennings, anti-anti-Semitism of, 68 Bush, George W., pastrami showdown of, 27; as free spender, 27-28;as Reagan, 27-28; as Nixon, 27-28; Thatcherian motionlessness of, 28; fateful tax cuts of, 28, 52-53; as pacesetter, 42; as death-row pinup, 71; batting average of, 122 Butler, Rhett, as square dancer, 80-81; as Ted Turner, 133 Camus, Albert, as Weekend at Bernie's prop, 131 Carter, Jimmy, inflation and, 57; vanquishing of, 57, 60; as library-goer, 94; freelance diplomacy of, 98 Castro, Fidel, projected death of, 52, 56; as Kennedy hater, 56; fastball of, 56; as GOP keynoter, 56 Cawein, Madison, blues poet, as Waste Land originator, 145 Chanel, Coco, self-reinvention of, 126; gnomic utterances of, 126; as "horizontal" collaborator, 126; timeless style of, 126 Clinton, Bill, ill-starred library of, 93-94; newfound frailty of, 94; shrinking legacy of, 94; North Korea and, 98-99, 106-108 Clinton, Hillary, presidential prospects of, 38; Cansecan scrutiny endured by, 38; as "Bob Dole in drag," 38 Coxey, Jacob, industrial army of, 66 Darwin, Charles, heresies of, 73-74 Day, Dorothy, Fondan qualities of, 129 Dyomochka, "Spets," mobster, as reality-TV producer, 36 Eliot, T. S., as long-underwear advocate, 142; as Orwell antagonist, 142; plagiaristic tendencies of, 142, 145; despairing Christianity of, 143; fascistic leanings of, 145; death wish of, 145; overcompensatory headgear of, 145; midwestern roots of, 148; rhythmic grumbling of, 148 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, elderly enclaves and, 80; on human bondage, 140 Faithfull, Marianne, as glamour groupie, 137; clear eyes of, 137 Fillmore, Millard, general unremarkability of, 51 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, resurrection of, 127 Fonda, Henry, remote control exercised by, 130-133; as Tom Joad, 131; obscurity of, 133 Fonda, Jane, as fantasy Rather spouse, 129; Columbian counterexample of, 129; patriotic bona fides of, 129-133; as Barbie doll, 130; mea culpas of, 130-132; aerobic idealism of, 132; as trapeze artist, 133 Fontenot, Cathy, prison warden, on mortality, 89; on hope, 92 Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, tail-lighted gowns of, 137; spoon necklaces of, 137; as revolutionary, 137; as nut case, 137 Frist, Bill, as marathon man, 42 Gibson, Mel, as death-row pinup, 71 God, as Republican, 57, 94; fiancées of, 93 Gomaa, Ali, Egyptian grand mufti, as anti-fundamentalist, 40-44; as close reader, 40-44; entrepreneurial flock of, 44; on elegance of sharia, 44 Gore, Al, as podcaster, 13; televised Google searches and, 13; swollen face of, 94 Göring, Hermann, sword of, 87 Grant, Cary, sublimity of, 125 Hamlet, lustful mother of, 135 Hepburn, Katharine, as scorekeeper, 162 Hirst, Damien, avant-garde taxidermy of, 156; seashells and, 156 Honoré II, Monégasque prince, enduring serenity of, 162 Hood, Robin, as meddler, 149 Hope, Bob, as courtier, 163 Huckabee, Mike, as marathon man, 42 Huxley, Aldous, anticlimactic passing of, 162 Jagger, Mick, trousers of, 137 John Paul II, as death-row pinup, 71 Johnson, Gary, former New Mexico governor, as Ironman, 42; as Everest conqueror, 42 Johnson, Samuel, as marriage counselor, 140 Kelly, Grace, as bearer of sex and class, 162; disapproving father of, 162; as "Miss Frigidaire," 162; queenlier-than-thou qualities of, 162; silver-screen comeback of, 163 Kennedy, John, skin-deep vitality of, 88; as Greek to us, 89; mob ties of, 126; brutal coarseness of, 126; baffling appeal of, 126 Kennedy, Joseph, closeted skeletons of, 88 Kenyatta, Jomo, Kenyan liberator, imperial suppression tactics of, 38 Kerry, John, as windsurfer, 42; as alleged marathoner, 42; French-proof maneuvers of, 81-84; as sleepyhead, 81-84; European heart of, 84; as goose slayer, 156 Kim Jong Il, threat posed by, 97-108; scorched-world policy of, 98 Landry, Tom, honorary highway of, 86 Lauren, Ralph, embattled muse of, 151 Lenin, V. I., organizational skills of, 118 Marcos, Ferdinand, as no Saddam Hussein, 120 Maugham, Somerset, on sunny shadiness of Monaco, 162 McCarthy, Mary, horrible marriage of, 127 Merckx, Eddy, Belgian cyclist, greatness of, 13 Monroe, Marilyn, declined throne of, 163 Montparnasse, Kiki de, as Man Ray model, 137; Hemingway and, 137; peasant roots of, 137; dead fish and, 137 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, on radical possibilities of prosperity, 64 Narcissus, as Kennedy brother, 89 Nixon, Richard, drunken-sailor spending of, 28; permanent crisis created by, 28, 52 Oedipus, as Kennedy brother, 89 Onassis, Aristotle, royal matchmaking of, 163; as "éminence Greece," 163 Orwell, George, as Eliot nemesis, 142 Ovid, on female eroticism, 135 Pallenberg, Anita, as Faithfull companion, 137 Pawlenty, Tim, as marathon man, 42 Pound, Ezra, indiscipline of, 143; "batty, sinister universe" inhabited by, 148; as April fool, 148 Prometheus, as Kennedy brother, 89 Rainier, Monégasque prince, manifold worries of, 162-163; ill-timed death of, 162; "pinhead country" of, 162; laundress forebear of, 163; cursed family of, 163; as "Fat Little Monaco," 163 Rather, Dan, as fantasy Fonda spouse, 129; as Klingon Twain, 129 Rice, Condoleezza, as sword-rattler, 97 Rogers, Ginger, quid pro quo and, 162 Rumsfeld, Donald, training wheels and, 115 Russell, Bertrand, as Eliot helpmeet, 145 Sanford, Mark, South Carolina governor, as cyclist, 42 Sedgwick, Edie, influential frame of, 137; as speed freak, 137; blown inheritance of, 137; pampered legs of, 137 Sinatra, Frank, sublimity of, 125; mob ties of, 125-126; sweetness of, 125; viciousness of, 125; as masculinity personified, 125; on Grace Kelly, 162; as courtier, 163 Sitwell, Edith, as animal-rights activist, 155 Stephanie, Monégasque princess, elephant trainers and, 162; trapeze-artist beau of, 162; as X-rated spam subject, 162 Stewart, Jimmy, as source of heat, 162 Suharto, as no Saddam Hussein, 120 Tantawi, Mohammad Sayyed, Egyptian mufti, sex-change fatwa of, 44 Thatcher, Margaret, zero-rotation policy of, 28 Theseus, as Kennedy brother, 89 Truman, Harry, nonexistent regrets of, 122 Vadim, Roger, Fonda spouse, Hefnerian air of, 131; casting couch of, 131; as satyr, 131; "charming addictions" of, 131 Vilsack, Tom, as marathon man, 42 Virgil, as retirement planner, 80 Webb, Del, Sun City impresario, internment camps and, 81 Webster, John, on chicken intelligence, 156 Wells, Jonathan, as "intelligent design" innovator, 74; Moonies and, 74 Wilson, Edmund, as magician, 126; as polyglot, 127; as haute vulgarizer, 127; as terrible husband, 127; as carnal diarist, 127; accessibility of, 127; tragic obsolescence of, 127 Wise, Bob, West Virginia pol, black belt of, 42; as world-class clogger, 42; bum knee of, 42 Wolfowitz, Paul, as "P-Dubs," 110; unruly hair of, 110; endearing awkwardness of, 110; on Baath-mafia parallels, 110, 118; on WMD, 113-114; as pre-9/11 dove, 118-120; on imperfection, 122 Yamada, Shinya, pop accountancy of, 148 Yandle, Tom, as stag-hunt steward, 151-153; lambs of, 157-158 Yeltsin, Boris, vodkacracy of, 64 Yoda, as arms dealer, 87 Benjamin Healy is an Atlantic Monthly deputy managing editor.
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