Example sentences for: vidal

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  • Some wonder if this is a result of having a living subject--"Kaplan doesn't push, doesn't ask discomfiting questions" (Richard Dyer, the Boston Globe )--and note that Vidal "seems to have been able to exert his considerable charm, guile, and authority over his biographer" (Martin Rubin, the Washington Times ). Several also mention that Kaplan has been beaten to the punch by Vidal himself, who released his own memoir, Palimpsest , just three years ago.

  • A South American delegate told Vidal, "We have come thousands of miles for these talks.

  • On Pages 218 through 221, we find the following: Army Archerd, Kate Capshaw, Uma Thurman, Carrie Fisher, Roddy McDowall, Elizabeth Taylor, Matt Crowley, Nazimova, Natalie Wood, James Clavell, Sue Mengers, Gore Vidal, Jack Nicholson, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Reagan, Marje Everett, Merv Griffin, Princess Diana, Prince Charles, John Travolta, Suzanne Childs, Ray Stark, Betsy Bloomingdale, and Alan Greisman ("who used to be married to Sally Field").

  • "At least one writer will be happy with Fred Kaplan's new book: Gore Vidal," writes William Deresiewicz in the New York Times Book Review . It's a common note sounded in reviews of this exhaustive authorized biography--namely that Kaplan simply reports Vidal's version of events without question.

  • But Gore Vidal said the mixing of fact with fantasy was appropriate for a president "whose life owed so little to Parson Weems and so much to Pirandello."


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