Word: antaeus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novelists with speeches. Author Mark Helprin put words in Dole's mouth that had no business being there, and the only person to benefit was Helprin. He had the simple man from Russell describing "the heart of cities" looking from space "like strings of sparkling diamonds," and alluding to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched the ground. Then Dole was trapped by that bridge metaphor. It was hardly out of Dole's mouth before Clinton made it a two-way span, with himself poised at the last exit before the 21st century. Dole...
...phone Dole. Helprin called from a pay phone, and Dole asked him to take a shot at writing a resignation statement. For the next few weeks the two talked every couple of days, with Helprin faxing Dole versions of the speech. Helprin came up with the allusion to Antaeus, the giant in Greek mythology whose strength was replenished when he touched ground. Dole liked that. But there was much he didn't like. They went over the speech word by word at least a dozen times. Editor Dole, Helprin says, had "the compression...