Vidal Doble of military intelligence, containing a recording of a conversation between President Gloria Arroyo and Virgilio Garcillano, an official of the Commission on Elections.

" It is tempting to argue that Vidal said more to subvert the dominant rules of sex and gender in Myra than is contained in a shelf of queer theory treatises ," wrote Dennis Altman.

" We have been friends for many years now ," Vidal said, " and I admire the novel that he based on our school days, A Separate Peace.

Prior to its even being published, an editor at EP Dutton said to Vidal, " You will never be forgiven for this book.

Vidal himself said " shock was the most pleasant emotion aroused in the press.

It was said by Vidal in a 2006 NPR interview that parts of the dynamic of The City and the Pillar were softened for the public and applied to the script for Ben-Hur which Vidal and others were called in to re-work.

" During a speech to the National Press Club on November 4, 1994, Vidal claimed that Thomas Gore had said " If there was any race other than the human race, I'd go join it.

Gore Vidal said of his work: " Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs .... Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives.

We cannot here do more than enumerate the leading troubadours and briefly indicate in what conditions their poetry was developed and through what circumstances it fell into decay and finally disappeared: Peire d ' Alvernha, who in certain respects must be classed with Marcabru ; Arnaut Daniel, remarkable for his complicated versification, the inventor of the sestina, a poetic form for which Dante and Petrarch express an admiration difficult for us to understand ; Arnaut de Mareuil, who, while less famous than Arnaut Daniel, certainly surpasses him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; Bertran de Born, now the most generally known of all the troubadours on account of the part he is said to have played both by his sword and his sirveniescs in the struggle between Henry II of England and his rebel sons, though the importance of his part in the events of the time seems to have been greatly exaggerated ; Peire Vidal of Toulouse, a poet of varied inspiration who grew rich with gifts bestowed on him by the greatest nobles of his time ; Guiraut de Borneil, lo macsire dels trobadors, and at any rate master in the art of the so-called close style ( trebar clus ), though he has also left us some songs of charming simplicity ; Gaucelm Faidit, from whom we have a touching lament ( plaint ) on the death of Richard Cœur de Lion ; Folquet of Marseille, the most powerful thinker among the poets of the south, who from being a merchant and troubadour became an abbot, and finally bishop of Toulouse ( d. 1231 ).

) Gore Vidal said that, by spring 1958, the script largely reflected Anderson and Behrman's work and nearly all the dialogue was in Anderson's " elevated poetic style.

Fry crafted some critical scenes, the magazine said, and then left the film — at which point Vidal was brought in to finish the script.

Vidal said that preproduction on the film was already under way in Italy when he flew to Rome in early March 1958 to meet with Wyler.

Vidal said he kept the structure of the Tunberg / Behrman / Anderson script, but rewrote nearly all the dialogue.

Vidal said that he believed that Messala's vindictiveness could only be motivated by the feeling of rejection that a lover would feel.

Vidal also said he suggested to Wyler that Stephen Boyd be told to play the role that way, and that Heston be kept in the dark about the Messala character's motivations.

Putnam speaks of two main components of the concept: bonding social capital and bridging social capital, the creation of which Putnam credits to Ross Gittel and Avis Vidal.

The 2010 – 11 season brought two coaching changes, with both Antonio Calderón and David Vidal ( who returned to the club only a few months after leaving ) being fired, as Albacete returned to the third division after 21 years.

" Decades later, in a reissue of the novel, Vidal replaced the names of the five justices and two anti-pornography crusaders with the words their names were chosen to represent.

Gore Vidal, in his memoir Palimpsest, acknowledges that he and Knowles concurrently attended Phillips Exeter Academy, with Vidal two years ahead.

They had two children, Nina S. Gore ( 1903 – 1978 ) ( the mother of Gore Vidal ), and Thomas Notley Gore ( 1910 – 1964 ).

Some of those novels which have come down to us may be ranked with the most graceful works in Provençal literature ; two are from the pen of the Catalan author Raimon Vidal de Besalu.

Gore Vidal, in his recent autobiography " Point To Point Navigation " devotes much of the final two chapters of his book to praising Hartmann's and Lamar Waldron's scholarship in " solving " the JFK case ( JFK was a friend of Vidal's ).

On 8 January 1886, in Rome, Vidal and Debussy performed Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony at two pianos for Liszt himself, an after-dinner performance that Liszt apparently slept through.

Her parents moved from Puerto Rico and settled in Manhattan, New York, where Vidal and her two sisters Christina and Tanya were born.

Vidal broke the scene in two, so that the men first reunite at the Castle Antonia and then later argue and end their friendship at Ben-Hur's home.

The Delinquents were a rap group from Oakland, California, composed of two members, Glen Jones aka G-Stack, and Vidal Prevost aka V-White ( formerly known as V-Dal ).

Among the boxers he defeated were former world champion Fidel LaBarba ( beaten by a decision in ten ), future world champion Al Singer ( also by a decision in ten ), and fringe contenders Bushy Graham, Vic Burrone and Gregorio Vidal, all of whom, except for Graham, were beaten by decision.

After their divorce, when Brooke was only five months old, he married, in 1970, Diana " Didi " Lippert, former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss, who is the son of Hugh D. Auchincloss and half-brother of Gore Vidal and a stepbrother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Guèye was the party president, Armand Angrand ( former mayor of Dakar ) general secretary and Maître Vidal, Charles Graziani and Amadou Assane Ndoye vice-presidents.

After World War II, his screen career was largely relegated to television but he also portrayed the former President of the United States, a character loosely based on Harry Truman, in both the stage and film versions of The Best Man ( 1964 ), written by Gore Vidal.

Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, neoconservative commentator William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.

Prior to the 2011 French Open's start, Razzano's fiancé and former coach Stephane Vidal died of a brain tumor.

According to Joseph Anglade, a philologist and specialist of medieval literature who helped impose the then archaic term Occitan as the sole correct name, the word Lemosin was first used to designate the language at the beginning of the 13th century by Catalan troubadour Raimon Vidal de Besalú in his Razós de trobar

** A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.

Gore Vidal, in his historical fiction novel Creation, describes at length the rise of Achemenids, and especially Darius I and presents the life and death circumstances of Xerxes.

Since that beginning, they planted a variety of vines including ... Chardonnay, Vidal Blanc, Cabernet Franc, and Norton ~ a grape native to Virginia this makes an excellent stopping off place between Williamsburg and Richmond at I-64 Exit 211.

Born in Canterbury, England to Agnes Sealy Vidal and Colonel Frederic Gosset, Gosset attended Winchester College before reading chemistry and mathematics at New College, Oxford.

The work was first mounted at La Scala on 17 January 1895 with Renée Vidal as Dalila and Emanuele Lafarge as Samson.

The international breakthrough of Canadian ice wine came in 1991, when Inniskillin's 1989 Vidal ice wine won the Grand Prix d ’ Honneur at Vinexpo.

Though Pelee Island Winery and Hillebrand were Canada's first commercial icewine producers, starting production in 1983, Inniskillin Wines is considered the most widely known Canadian icewine producer as the first Canadian winery to win a major international award, the Grand Prix d ’ Honneur at 1991 Vinexpo in France, with their 1989 Vidal Icewine ( which was technically an illegal import into the EU ), placing Canadian icewines on the world stage.

The many student chapters included future celebrities, such as author Gore Vidal ( as a student at Phillips Exeter Academy ), and the future President Gerald Ford, at Yale Law School.

Of Vidal, Brass concluded, " If I ever really get mad at Gore Vidal, I'll publish his script.

In 2000, personnel at Barajas International Airport in Madrid negotiated with Sánchez Vidal so that he could display his collection at the international arrivals terminal of that airport.

In 1910 he became a student at the Paris Conservatoire, studying with Emile Pessard ( harmony ), André Gedalge ( counterpoint ) and Paul Vidal ( composition ).

He beat Gregorio Vidal by a fifteen round decision to win the vacant world's Bantamweight title back at New York, in front of 15, 000 fans.

Vidal says that at this point, the damage to the town was " relatively limited ... confined to a few buildings ", including the church of San Juan and headquarters of the Izquierda Republicana (" Republican Left ") political party.

A city of Araraquara region deputy at the time, Bento de Abreu Sampaio Vidal held in 1926 a parcel of their assets.

In 2000, he met Guy Vidal who would become responsible for the series Poisson Pilote at Dargaud.

Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse, and studied at the conservatoires there and in Paris, under Jules Massenet at the latter.

Vidal conducted at the Paris Opera where he made his first appearance directing Gwendoline in 1894 ( he had coached the singers for the Paris premiere in 1893 ), and later conducted the first performance of Ariane and the Paris premieres of Roma by Massenet, and L ' étranger by d ’ Indy.