Blessed: The Autobiography by George Best Ebury Press Pounds 17.99 ***** Football and drink, drink and football: these are the two things most people remember about George Best. He has long been considered the greatest footballer ever, yet he spent barely eight years as a professional player, first announcing his retirement at the age of 25. ' Sometimes when I divide my life into two halves, I think, 'The first 27 years were sheer bliss and the last 27 have been...
This is the second of a five-part series on infidelity from Wendy Leigh's "The Infidelity Report." Today: A profile of the "other man/woman.The increase in infidelity indicates that many men and women are ready and willing to become enmeshed in the intricacies of the eternal triangle. And given the availability and participation of the cheatee, the extramarital affair is easier than ever to arrange. Another change in the modus operandi and...
Sex can often be the preoccupation of the classic soul man, a time-honored tradition that extends back to the earliest days of blues. The soul singer frequently places his finger on the ambiguity of sex and love with a poetic precision that hours of psychotherapy cannot match. In the case of Clarence Carter - one of the last of that vanishing breed, the Southern-style '60s soul man, who made a rare Northern California appearance Sunday at the Last Day Saloon - sex is virtually the...