He bullied, soothed and cajoled. In fact, he's awfully good at what he does, but how one wishes he didn't work quite so hard doing it.
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He's still not interviewing other people; he's still interviewing himself.
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His voice is his great weapon. It is not an orator's voice. It is husky, and sometimes it fades to a whisper. Meanwhile, it is extraordinarily intimate. Mr Reagan does not speak to audiences; he speaks to individuals.
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His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married.
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Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
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One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.
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The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur.
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