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Show Wednesday, April 17, 1991 THE SIGNPOST 11 1 ' Kitty Kelly's unauthorized If it is true, as Mark Twain once said, that biography can be defined as "the clothes and buttons of a person," then reading Kitty Kelley's "Nancy Reagnn: An Unauthorized Biography" (Simon and Schuster, $24.95) is like walking into a closet filled with piranhas.Most of Kelley's bombshells have been reported on front pages: Nancy and Frank Sinatra, a romantic duo since the 70s, possibly continuing their affair in the White House; Nancy, frequently smashing her daughter's face with a hairbrush; Nancy, pregnant with Patti, coercing Ron into marrying her, even though he was still in love SPRING (continued from would spend hours in rapt fascination just watching the clouds rumble through the ether. While watching in rapt amazement as the clouds swelled and dissipated unpredictably, my imagination beheld a constantly changing cavalcade of wonderous creatures and weird objects. Now, as I diligently prepare myself for the "real world" with its alluring promise of material security, I have no time for such child ish nonsense. I am simply too busy to take time out of my hectic schedule to indulge in such a nostalgic and infantile waste of time. After all, time is money and time is fleeting. What a sad state of affairs to discover I am too busy vying to carve out a place among the prestigious elite to enjoy the boundless, ever-changing, incomparable, Yesterday, when I walked out of the office after a weary shift at the sweatshop into the cool serenity of a spring evening, I catch a breathtaking glimpse of the setting sun that washed the clouds in brilliant hues of gold, yellow, orange, red, mauve, and purple. This glorious display of fast-fading colors is splashed over the background of an azure skydome that darkens slowly to a deep blue towards the eastern horizon. Sprinkled over V ZJ Air Force ROTC cadets can begin training toward a career that goes higher and faster. In fact, if you'd like to begin a life in the sky, your best first step is Air Force ROTC. To reach higher tomorrow, reach for the phone now. Call DEPT OF AEROSPACE STUDIES (801) 581-6236 Leadership Excellence Starts Here with actress Christine Larson. If we are to believe her, Kclley reports that Nancy Davis, who would later become Nancy Davis Reagan and present herself as a morally upstanding citi.en,"was renowned in Hollywood for performing oral sex." Kelley's source is biographer Anne Edwards, whose contact was Denny Thau, vice-president of Locw's, head of casting for MCM and one of Nancy Davis' lovers during the Hollywood years when she was a second-string actress working in second-string pictures. One would imagine that she would be mighty popular indeed, but certainly not as popular as page 10) this panorama is a smattering of twinkling stars, some red, some blue, and the steady glow of Jupiter and Mars. I will never forget that resplendent vision. I was hammered through the soul by an incredibly simple revelation which possessed convoluted repercussions that reverberated throughout my core. Struck by the incredible opulence of the blazing vista unfolding above me, my racing pace faltered, ceased as I come to a stand still and beheld this passing vision. Impressed beyond my knowlegde of words to adequately express my rapt astonishment, I can only conclude that in all my years of studying artists and their works none of them can compare, either singularly or as a whole, to the unreplicable exquisiteness of But what impressed itself upon me the most was the simple fact that little, insignificent me was an integral and significent part of this stupendous panorama. 1 was almost overcome by the urge to fall down and kiss the earth. But the thought of being seen joyously kissing and lustily embracing Mother Earth by my more staid peers and incurring their fervent scrutinization held my reverent Willi A1K FORCE KUTL. tell all is a closet filled with piranhas Kelley's no-holds-barred, instant best seller. For Nancy-watchers everywhere, almost every page of Kelley's unflattering 603-page portrait reveals at least one especially ugly detail about the former first lady, who, Kelley claims, treated her husband like a lapdog and her children like encumbrances. Some highlights include: Nancy lied about her father, Kenneth Robbins, claiming he was a Princeton graduate. He never went to Princeton; he never went to college. Nancy, his only child, ultimately disowned him, and refused to attend his funeral when he died in 197Z His obituary made no passions in check. Again I was hit with the infinite sadness of the situation in which I am a character. Obviously I am not the only creature whose very existence depends upon the vitality of Mother Earth. You are too. In fact, every creature that draws breath depends on the richness of the earth to survive. Where do our priorities lie, my friends? In our haste for material gratification we have forgotten are fair mother. 1 have read somewhere about how honoring our parents will guarantee long life upon the land. That makes perfectly clear sense to me. How about you? We inhabit such a splendorous home it would be such a terrible mistake not to take pleasure in its enjoyment. So if you ever catch me lazily wasting my time in starine at the flight of birds or smelling the flowers, I ask only that you give it an honest try before you ridicule my behavoir. Don't knock it till you try it. You just might like it. It's absolutely free too! EXPERIENCE 1. Convocation Chair 2. Open Hour Steering Committee 3. President SAE 4. Paralimintarian Wasatch PTA 5. LDSSA Sports Committee 6. CAB Special Events mention of his daughter. Edith Luckett, Nancy's mother, was a foul-mouthed, flamboyant, two-bit actress before she started climbing social ladders, pursued, then married Davis, a notorious bigot and anti-Semite. As Davis lay dying, Nancy, who always professed great love for him, refused to pay for extra nursing care. While the nation was in mourning over the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963, the Reagans threw a cocktail party that very weekend. ("My heavens," Nancy said. "Why would we cancel our party just because John F. Kennedy died?") Nancy was obsessed about her thick legs and ankles; she dieted to the point of dizziness, frequently toppling over in public. So obsessed was she about dieting, she chewed every morsel of food 32 times. Nancy monitored the activities of Patti and Ron Jr; when J Satisfaction Guaranteed Two Year Warranty 286-12 Mhz Computer 1 Meg RAM 40 Meg Hard Disk Super VGA Color Both 5 14" & 312" Drives Mouse & Software as low as $59Month oac Repairs Service Sales Support Instant Financing O.A.C. 393-0950 1-800-266-7782 TfTfm Am lifts oIJh:h u n hull For ACADEMIC A.S.W.S.U. GOALS 1. Implement a plan to increase Student Awareness of Open Hour programs 2. Expand Open Hour to Tuesday 3. Enhance the Image of WSU in the community. 4. Represent Students positions to the Administration. 5. Continue to increase the Effectiveness of the Student Senate in formulating Student Policy. 6. Evaluate the Standing Committees they were young via an intercom system. Once, she listened in on Patti and a girlfriend concocting a childish school prank; she turned both her daughter and the other girl in to the school's principal. "I'm telling you," Richard Nixon is reported to have said, "Nancy Reagan's a bitch, a demanding one, and he (Reagan) listens to her." Kitty Kelley would have us believe that Nancy Davis Reagan is, at the very least, a domineering woman, penurious, mean of spirit, vituperative, self-obsessed and fraudulent. Should you and I, the people Nancy told to eat cake, believe her?If you've been gunning for Nancy all these years and waiting to read Kitty Kelley's rendition of the former first lady's life, you bet we should. 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