Shana Alexander

Rome's riches are in too immediate juxtaposition. Under the lid of awful August heat, one moves dizzily from church to palace to…

— Shana Alexander

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a…

— Shana Alexander

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

— Shana Alexander

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of…

— Shana Alexander

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should…

— Shana Alexander

Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

— Shana Alexander

Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones…

— Shana Alexander

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is…

— Shana Alexander

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip…

— Shana Alexander