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Wise Blood is about Hazel Motes, a young Army veteran who comes home to rural Georgia determined to overthrow his past. Hazel's grandfather was an evangelical preacher; Hazel decides to revolt against his legacy by starting his own "Church Without Christ." As forcefully played by Brad Dourif (the...
But the packaging of the modern populist goes beyond the early morning family jogs memorialized on the cover of Newsweek. What Carter had in 1976 and Bush has in 1980 is a young, enthusiastic organization that started early in Iowa and capitalized on that state's affection for down-to...
It may have been Jimmy Carter's best-yet State of the Union ceremony. More people. More applause. Critical issues. Good speech. But something was missing. Oldtimers remember those nights awash with affection for and trust in Eisenhower, supercharged with Kennedy's joy and youth, permeated with the...
That kind of zeal can send tremors through many a faculty. At Harvard a student recently filed charges against Government Professor Martin Kilson, alleging that he had tried to kiss her on the lips. Kilson denied the charge but admitted kissing her on the forehead as a spontaneous gesture of...
That may explain the Brzezinski lapse. It didn't help when Executive Editor Ben Bradlee (who is married to Quinn) had to run a box saying it wasn't true that Brzezinski had unzipped his fly in front of a female reporter. Quinn had written this on the...