Volume 297 no. 5 / June 2006
Adams, John, bipolarity of, 46
Adams, John Quincy, depression of, 46
Al-Timimi, Ali, alleged terrorism conspirator, childhood of, 69; spiritual education of, 72–74; Socratic self-conception of, 78
Ando, Tadao, polished concrete and, 124
Berlusconi, Silvio, myriad influences of, 118
Bobrov, Kiril, Russian soldier, endless hazing of, 89–92; shattered dreams of, 89–92; heavy-metal tastes of, 90
Breathed, Berkeley, cartoonist, as tea investor, 127
Bush, George H. W., voodoo and, 27
Bush, George W., tax-cut enthusiasm of, 28
Bush, Vannevar, as women’s booster, 51
Churchill, Winston, osteopath of, 138
Clinton, Hillary, post-Roe fortunes of, 65–66
Cohen, Rich, as sweetener historian, 126
Coolidge, Calvin, hypochondria of, 46
Crawford, Marion, former Queen Elizabeth governess, gentle tell-all of, 106
Davison, Emily, suffragist, suicide of, 49
Descartes, René, as demolition specialist, 87
Diogenes, loneliness of, 28
Eden, Anthony, osteopath of, 138
Eisenberg, Deborah, rare books of, 109; short haircut of, 109; Proustian sophistication of, 109
Eisenhower, Dwight, depression of, 46
Flaubert, Gustave, spy-novel preferences of, 112
Frist, Bill, red meat served up by, 15
Frost, David, as nude model, 139
Furst, Alan, spy novelist, maddening gibberish of, 110; as Flaubert favorite, 112; plodding eroticism of, 110–112; plotting mastery of, 113
Gantt, H. L., as Taylor disciple, 84; as Soviet economic guru, 84
Garfield, James, depression of, 46
Gates, Bill, as Berlusconi component, 118
Giuliani, Rudolph, pro-choice views of, 65; uphill battle faced by, 65
Goldman, Seth, as tea entrepreneur, 126–128; anti-soda crusade of, 128
Goldwater, Barry, as oral surgeon, 27
Grant, Ulysses S., alcohol dependence of, 46; phobias of, 46
Grayling, A. C., philosopher, as “teledon,” 95; as busybody, 95; nagging ahistorical tendencies of, 99–100
Hansen, Suzanne, former Ovitz nanny, tell-all memoir of, 104–108; Debra Winger and, 106; as food-fight participant, 107
Harriman, Averell, osteopath of, 138
Hayes, Rutherford B., depression of, 46
Henry, Thierry, French soccer player, English allegiances of, 133
Hibarger, Homer, management theorist, workplace illumination and, 85; as breakmaster, 85
Hirohito, domestic alias of, 123
Hirshberg, Gary, organic-yogurt magnate, example set by, 127
Hofstadter, Richard, as biography subject, 118; paranoia of, 118
Holmes, Oliver Wendell Jr., eugenics enthusiasm of, 66
Hoover, Herbert, depression of, 46
Huckabee, Mike, Arkansas governor, dieting record of, 40; dark-horse potential of, 40
James, Henry, as New Yorker, 109; as interview subject, 119
Jefferson, Thomas, social phobia of, 46
Johnson, Lyndon, bipolarity of, 46
Johnson, Nora, on desperate housewives, 51–54; on elemental rawness of infancy, 54
Johnson, Samuel, idleness of, 118
Jones, Edgar L., World War II correspondent, on myth of Allied innocence, 96
Jones, Edith, as hypothetical Roe swing vote, 56
Jones, Tylenol, fictional pimp, implausible name of, 117
Kamman, Bill, as pickle expert, 126
Kandinsky, Wassily, cartographic style of, 122
Keeler, Catherine, Profumo paramour, as Homer Simpson forebear, 139; “Austin Powers choppers” of, 139; pathological chattiness of, 139
Kennedy, John F., shallow civil-rights record of, 118
Knight, Zat, English soccer player, as odd man out, 133
Krebs, Maynard G., idleness of, 118
Le Carré, John, narrative fellowship engendered by, 110
Lewis, Edna, as fried-chicken virtuoso, 126
Lincoln, Abraham, psychotic depression of, 46
Lopez, Jennifer, inscrutability of, 116
Luxenberg, Christoph, German Orientalist, warmed-over conclusions of, 116
Madison, James, depression of, 46
Magdalene, Mary, non-prostitution of, 119
Mao Zedong, as organization man, 85–86
Mayo, Elton, management theorist, Freudian influences of, 85; dark humanism of, 85; subtle coercion of, 85
McCain, John, perilous post-Roe path of, 64–65
Miller, Helen Hill, on sex-segregated telescopes, 51
Miyajima, Tatsuo, Japanese artist, indoor starscape of, 124
Mobutu Sese Seko, as agent of disorder, 15
Mondale, Walter, as Reagan tax adviser, 28
Moore, Roy, as stubbornness template, 65
Mullah Omar, as hypothetical cuckold, 138
Munro, Alice, as descriptive genie, 109
Murdoch, Rupert, as Berlusconi component, 118
Mussolini, Benito, pet octopus of, 113
Nestle, Marion, as nutritional realist, 125; on “liquid candy,” 125
Niskanen, William A., economist, as whiz kid, 28; as Starve the Beast skeptic, 28; as deficit Cassandra, 28
Nixon, Richard, alcohol abuse of, 46
Orwell, George, on emotional mechanics of sport, 135
Ovitz, Michael, tell-all nanny of, 104–108; Redford-related enthusiasm of, 104; Mickey Mouse anniversary gift of, 104
Owen, Wilfred, on insupportability of war, 50
Paul, apostle, relatively mundane qualities of, 119
Pelé, as homebody, 135
Pierce, Franklin, depression of, 46
Pinchot, Gifford, as “intrapreneur,” 84
Plato, as management theorist, 87
Poe, Edgar Allan, mysterious death of, 119
Popper, Karl, as falsifiability junkie, 82
Profumo, John, former British official, accepted ruin of, 138; good works of, 138; public silence of, 138; hair shirt of, 138; as anti-appeaser, 139
Proust, Marcel, sophistication of, 109
Putin, Vladimir, anti-hazing pleas of, 91
Reagan, Ronald, magical tax cuts of, 27; as disciplinarian, 27; political prestidigitation of, 27
Rice-Davies, Mandy, on extramarital shyness, 139; quotability of, 139
Romney, Mitt, as health-care pioneer, 44
Roosevelt, Theodore, bipolarity of, 46
Rosenior, Liam, English soccer player, as odd man out, 133
Rounds, Mike, South Dakota governor, abortion ban supported by, 58; plunging poll numbers of, 58
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, as management theorist, 86
Rove, Karl, Roe-related shyness of, 64
Schell, Theodore, broadband expert, on challenge of “last mile,” 130
Scott, Dred, abortion and, 57, 65
Scott, Lee, Wal-Mart CEO, health-care policies of, 38–44; mild-mannered aspect of, 40
Shakespeare, William, as management theorist, 86
Shaw, Maud, Kennedy nanny, genteel tell-all of, 106; Maltese childhood of, 106; Iranian sojourn of, 106
Simpson, Homer, as nude model, 139
Sinatra, Frank, osteopath of, 138
Socrates, merciful end of, 78
Speer, Albert, on effectiveness of Allied airpower, 98
Steinbrenner, George, as Berlusconi component, 118
Stern, Andy, SEIU chief, anti-Wal-Mart strategy of, 38–44; purple motif of, 38
Taft, William Howard, political drift of, 46; obesity of, 46; sleep apnea of, 46
Taylor, A. J. P., on English soccer exports, 133
Taylor, Elizabeth, osteopath of, 138
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, management guru, pig iron inspiration of, 80; on “large, powerful Hungarians,” 80; iffy methodology of, 80–82; foul mouth of, 81; endless successors of, 82–87
Trautmann, Bert, English soccer player, as German POW, 134; broken-neck heroics of, 134
Updike, John, unconvincing stoicism of, 114–115; tin ear of, 115–117; cultural illiteracy of, 115–117
Ward, Stephen, as osteopath, 138; as stealer of swimsuits, 138; suicide of, 138
Wilde, Oscar, idleness of, 118
Wilson, Woodrow, depression of, 46; anxiety of, 46; stroke of, 46
Winfrey, Oprah, as contrition-circuit staple, 138
Woolf, Virginia, epistolary righteousness of, 50–51
Zidane, Zinedine, French soccer player, sublimity of, 135