Who's Who
Volume 297 no. 2 / march 2006
Abednego, civil disobedience of, 56 Abramoff, Jack, as potential DeLay floe-mate, 42–43 Althusser, Louis, charlatanry of, 131 Altman, Robert, overratedness of, 115 Anderson, Perry, as polymath, 131–134; anti-pub stance of, 132; on Confederate independence, 133 Anzag, Hassan, Moroccan barber, as Elizabeth Taylor acquaintance, 148 Bernhardt, Sarah, coffin bed of, 128 Biggers, Pilar, actress, as Mrs. Deion Sanders, 94 bin Laden, Osama, impending capture of, 37 Blair, Tony, as centrist tough guy, 30 Boxer, Barbara, as McCarthyite, 150 Buchanan, Pat, as big-tent Republican, 42 Bush, George W., as potential demolition man, 30; partisan dance partners of, 30 Buttermilk, horse, as room divider, 121 Byrd, Robert C., as McCarthyite, 150 Cagney, James, as “nobody’s clever ape,” 115 Canby, Vincent, non-fuddy-duddy nature of, 115 Chen Shui-bian, Taiwanese president, Olympic game plan of, 40 Cheney, Dick, undisclosed location of, 141 Christo, as Poe bedfellow, 128 Clinton, Hillary, as GOP coalition builder, 43 Cooke, Alistair, as film-crit anthologist, 114 Coolidge, Calvin, damage-control protocol of, 43 Croce, Arlene, critical chops of, 114; on Astaire and Rogers, 114 Dangermond, Jack, on consequences of geographical literacy, 144 DeLay, Tom, as potential Abramoff floe-mate, 42–43 Deng Xiaoping, as omen, 134 Didion, Joan, on John Wayne, 115 Ebert, Roger, enormous erudition of, 115 Edward VII, A-list funeral of, 92 Ferguson, Otis, forgotten film critic, surgical style of, 115 Firbank, Ronald, as handyman hunter, 128 Franklin, Aretha, as Rosa Parks eulogist, 92 Freud, Sigmund, on decorative interiority, 119 God, as “perfect husband,” 98 Gonzaga, Gian, love researcher, on science of cuddling, 70 Grönemeyer, Dietrich, anatomical teachings of, 132 Habermas, Jürgen, relative hawkishness of, 133 Hanke, John, Google Earth impresario, Kurdish customers of, 144 Harding, Warren G., damage-control protocol of, 43 Hardy, Thomas, as chronicler of death foretold, 129 Hawking, Stephen, German popularity of, 132 Hawks, Howard, codependency of, 115 Hawn, Goldie, repudiated aesthetic of, 124 Hayek, Friedrich August von, ideological intransigence of, 132; non-conservatism of, 132 Healy, Denis, former British chancellor, as political geographer, 150 Henson, Jim, homespun genius of, 60 Hitler, Adolf, decorating tastes of, 127 Hobsbawm, Eric, as radical-history doyen, 131; vanquishing of, 132 hooks, bell, as film critic, 114; unhappy medium achieved by, 114 Hudson, Kate, score-settling décor of, 124 Jackson, Andrew, as Ariel Sharon soul mate, 29 Jakes, T. D., nineteen-inch neck of, 93; as teetotaler, 94; Deion Sanders and, 94; as menu item, 100; on middle-class anxiety, 100; as figurative fig leaf, 101; start-up prep school of, 102; African travels of, 102–103; transportation ministry of, 103; endless supplicants of, 103 Joan of Arc, as debating point, 150 Johnson, Lyndon, unseating of, 150–151; vulgarity of, 150 Johnson, Samuel, on commercial innocence, 46; on women’s preaching, 150 Jordan, Michael, controversy aversion of, 102 Kael, Pauline, as pinball wizard, 116 Kahlo, Frida, as emblem of mediocrity, 117 Kawakubo, Rei, Capitol undertaking of, 128 Kennedy, Robert F., Hamlet routine of, 150 Kennedy, Ted, as McCarthyite, 150 Khatib, Khaldoon al-, Palestinian student, on West Bank Spiderman, 85 Koizumi, Junichiro, as demolition expert, 30; as postal privatizer, 30; as cheese connoisseur, 30 Krepinevich, Andrew, military analyst, strategic Rorschach test of, 108 Lagasse, Emeril, low post-Katrina profile of, 136 Lieberman, Joe, as “lonesomest gal in town,” 151 Lincoln, Abraham, funeral cortege of, 128; bloodthirstiness of, 133; Marxist following of, 133 Liu Qi, Chinese Olympic official, aggressive torch route outlined by, 40 Ludwig II, interior pathologies of, 119 Luke, evangelist, loose women and, 98 Marx, Karl, literary craftsmanship of, 132; as Lincoln man, 133 McCain, John, as demolition specialist, 30 McCarthy, Eugene, as regicide, 150–151; as footnote, 150; as poet, 150; “hinterland” of, 150; as no George Bernard Shaw, 150; perpetual candidacy of, 151 McGovern, George, as rhetoric coach, 150 Milosevic, Slobodan, as radical temptation, 133 Monet, Claude, magnetic personality of, 117 Moussaoui, Zacarias, trial of, 15, 36; as nutcase, 36; as ringmaster, 36 Myles, Eileen, poet, cardboard-box sleeping quarters of, 127 Nebuchadnezzar, tyranny of, 56 Niss, Abraham Moul, Moroccan rabbi, as cause for celebration, 147 Nixon, Richard, unpardonability of, 42–43; obscenity of, 150 Oakeshott, Michael, ideological intransigence of, 132 Parks, Rosa, A-list funeral of, 92 Pawson, John, British architect, frigid minimalism of, 123 Peychaud, Antoine Amedie, apothecary, as bitters innovator, 138 Phillips, Kevin, on political itchiness, 42 Plaster Caster, Cynthia, distinctive interior-design scheme of, 127 Poe, Edgar Allan, as Christo bed- fellow, 128 Post, Emily, as narcissism connoisseur, 122 Powell, Anthony, as social historian, 132 Rand, Ayn, as matchmaker, 70 Rawls, John, relative hawkishness of, 133 Rhee, Syngman, counterinsurgency campaign of, 16 Rice, Condoleezza, as fence-mender, 86 Rockefeller, Nelson, as big-tent Republican, 42 Sandburg, Carl, film criticism of, 114 Sanders, Deion, spiritual renewal of, 94 Sawyer, Martin, New Orleans bartender, trade secrets of, 138 Seymour, William, as black Pentecostal pioneer, 96; segregated apprenticeship of, 96 Shackleton, Ernest, as Google Earth data point, 143 Shadrach, civil disobedience of, 56 Sharon, Ariel, as demolition expert, 29–30 Shaw, George Bernard, dilution of, 150 Spark, Muriel, as bed-sit bard, 127 Stassen, Harold, dependable futility of, 151 Stead, W. T., Titanic clairvoyance of, 128 Stewart, Martha, Polish roots of, 122 Strauss, Leo, ideological intransigence of, 132 Sullavan, Margaret, unmentionable divorce of, 119 Tarlow, Rose, interior-design guru, ascetic tastes of, 123; as decorative loner, 123–124 Taylor, Elizabeth, Moroccan sojourn of, 148 Thatcher, Margaret, insurgent ideas of, 131 Tolson, Melvin B., film critic, anti–Gone With the Wind jeremiad of, 114 Trigger, horse, as room divider, 121 Tymoshenko, Yulia, deposed Ukrainian PM, as opposition-opposition figure, 15 Warren, Neil Clark, eHarmony founder, as Redenbacher ringer, 58; as “Dr. Warm,” 60; on Mister Rogers, 60 Waters, John, nesting instincts of, 127 Wayne, John, as auteur, 115; as Didion subject, 115 West, Cornel, delayed salad order of, 101 White, E. B., revenge of, 50 Wilsey, Sean, memoirist, as Soviet propaganda pawn, 119; evil stepmother of, 119 Wodehouse, P. G., as interior decorator, 117 Wolfe, Elsie de, childhood décor trauma of, 120; sackcloth pinafores of, 121 Woods, Tiger, controversy aversion of, 102 Woolf, Virginia, non-locust-related loneliness of, 128 Yuan Weimin, Chinese sports minister, trash talk of, 38 Yushchenko, Viktor, Ukrainian president, short honeymoon of, 15 Benjamin Healy is an Atlantic Monthly deputy managing editor.
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