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...made more effective by Islam's reverence for martyrdom. For now, the voice of Islam speaks from a small base, with the various local groups like Jihadi Islami and Mujama Islami claiming at most a few thousand members. But they have served as an emotional framework for the aimless ire of the rebels...
...power lunch scene at Duke Zwilling's Tavern, Madison felt compelled to put on a good show. Speedy Lorenz had brought along a top editor from Rumpole House to discuss publication of Madison's proposed Essays on Federalism. The protocols of a proper business meal were followed scrupulously: aimless discussion of the New York theater season (all British imports), summer houses (expensive) and the servant problem (dire) until coffee was mercifully served. Only then did the editor, Michael Lordover, come to the point: "Jim, this isn't the big book you need at this point in your career. Sure...
...comedian who can be just as exotically mannered as O'Toole. The result could easily have been a mugging contest. Instead Plummer finds in Eliza a serene dignity and natural goodness that permeate even the character's most hyperkinetic moments and make her a perfect counterpoint to the low, aimless "undeserving poor" epitomized by Eliza's beguilingly frank rascal of a father, Alfred Doolittle (Sir John Mills...
Gordimer's heroine appears, at first glimpse, an unlikely focus for any story with epic intentions. Hillela Capran comes onstage as an aimless teenager with a penchant for trouble. Effectively orphaned by the breakup of her parents' marriage, the girl proves to be too much for either of her mother's sisters, Aunt Olga and Aunt Pauline, to control. Nothing seems to register with the child, not Olga's antique collecting and social climbing, not Pauline's furious campaigning for black civil rights and social progress. When Pauline discovers Hillela in bed with her son Sasha, the welcome...
This is the same man whose aimless foreign policy bred disaster in Beirut, the same man who flaunted his comprehension gap and nearly sold the farm at Iceland...