For nearly five years, Ms. Winfrey has had a segment about a book that has caught her attention.
With the sleeve of her sweatshirt, she rubs furiously at the rusty surface of a 36-foot-long World Trade Center column that has caught her trained eye.
In over half a century, no historian or commentator has caught her out in the requirement for non-partisanship, even when she must have been sorely tried.
Maggie is available for such adventures because she has caught her husband cheating on her in the midst of the famously decorous Darling Christmas party.
"It seems," she says, as if someone has caught her making a terrible mistake, "to be the most powerful one, the one that pursues you all your life, since you were a baby".
Elizabeth LeCompte is a small, slender, fine-boned woman of sixty-three, with dark-green eyes and silvery blond hair that she winds up into a floppy twist at the back of her head, and the slightly startled look of someone whose considerable beauty, not to mention talent, has caught her unaware.
