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...Moreover, his pivotal transformations take place offstage, or at least inside his head. He jilts Mary Todd because she is too ambitious, then after two years' absence seeks her hand. It's never clear why. As for abolition, he seemingly undergoes a quasi-religious conversion on the prairie, praying aloud for a friend's dying child while the friend's loyal servant -- the one black in the 3 hr. 20 min. epic -- fetches water. But Lincoln, who has sounded like an atheist until then, doesn't explain what he felt...
...Brooks, Carl Reiner and Larry Gelbart wrote for TV comic Sid Caesar in his 1950s heyday, they rarely put anything on paper. Instead they sat in a room trying to top one another, shouting out situations and one-liners. Periodically Caesar would halt the schoolboy jockeying to read aloud what they had so far. "Read what?" Simon recalls asking. "We haven't written anything yet." But Caesar had culled the best of their ideas as he heard them and, by a wink or nod, had ensured they were recorded by the most junior writer...
Californians were unnerved and seeking a focus for their anger. More than one burned-out homeowner wished aloud that the arsonist had gone up with his handiwork. Governor Pete Wilson compared arsonists to child molesters, offered a $250,000 bounty and requested tougher sentencing. In Washington, as President Bill Clinton promised to help the damaged areas with their "extraordinary expenses," Senator Bob Dole introduced an amendment to the crime bill that would hit arsonists with 40-year jail terms and fines reaching millions of dollars...
...Billy hard. "She wanted to marry a man who was going to amount to something," Graham's brother Melvin told Martin. The disappointment planted in Graham a determination to prove her wrong; it ripened alongside his commitment to discerning, and obeying, God's will. He would practice sermons aloud in old sheds or in a canoe in the middle of a lake. He ate a quarter- pound of butter a day to try to spread some bulk across his lanky frame, and he worked on his gestures and facial expressions as he traveled to tiny churches or declaimed outside saloons...
...protection -- mainly against Russia. After the armed insurrection in Moscow last month, the Polish government's National Security Office publicly admonished, "Recent events in Russia are the latest indication of the importance and significance of our future membership in NATO." In private, senior Polish and Hungarian diplomats worry aloud about possible trouble not only from Russia, but also from a nuclear-armed Ukraine, which they say is "as dangerous as the Russians," and from Germany, which they still do not trust...