Word: appealingness
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AFTER ZOE BAIRD AND KIMBA WOOD, NEITHER THE Clinton Administration nor its critics were in the mood for another imbroglio. So Dade County (Miami) prosecutor Janet Reno faced a Senate Judiciary Committee eager to accept her as the first woman Attorney General. She made the most of her opportunity. Reno...
Garner, who has never met Johnson, and who deliberately avoided reading the book, plays him as a salty-mouthed backslapper who is always quick with a joke and whom everyone seems to like. Johnson comes off as a likable gasbag -- a rogue perhaps, but deep down inside an O.K. guy...
But after so much piercing, visionary pain, rehabilitation is neither a believable nor an appealing option. The angels at the drive in and behind the bar speak louder than the apostrophes which end many of the stories, addressing the reader. Johnson's depictions of the druggie's singular experiences shine...
I know that Ali did not mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others. There is little enough frank speech on race as things stand. My remark--and it will not be the last...
"I know that Mr. Ali did not mean to intimidate me by appealing to the authorities, but he should be warned that his action might inadvertently have that effect on others," he wrote. "My remark--and it will not be the last--was intended to widen the range of things...