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Mandela may lack the rousing, bred-in-the-pulpit style of black orators like King or Jesse Jackson. His soft-spoken manner and unflappable dignity bespeak his background as a lawyer, a single-minded political organizer and a longtime prisoner still blinking a bit in the spotlight. But Mandela's magnetism is palpable, the consequence of his endurance and determination in the fight against South Africa's white-minority government. He fires the pride of African Americans and touches a deep desire in the psyche of Americans both black and white for a leader who might rekindle the biracial coalition...
...already ultra-conservative banker-blue suits and fitted red blazers and pearls. One San Francisco columnist refers to her "vulcanized hairdo," worthy of Margaret Thatcher. Other traits, however -- her stature (5 ft. 10 in. in the half heels she favors) and a steady green- eyed gaze -- bespeak a sense of authority and a sociability that enabled her to be mayor of rambunctious San Francisco for nine turbulent years, from 1978 to the end of 1987. "People sometimes misjudge me. I am very much a street person," Feinstein claims. "I know, I don't look like it. And this is where...
Today the North End is a melange of different histories: the signs on the restaurants bespeak its more recent Italian heritage, while the street names are reminiscent of its colonial beginnings. Anyone who read "Johnny Tremain" when he was little, or had colonial history rammed down his throat, will appreciate the locale...
...R.S.C. by an unstintingly gory Titus Andronicus, a Twelfth Night that underscores the play's dialectic between religious piety and hedonism and a Merchant of Venice that stars Anthony Sher as an unabashedly Levantine Shylock. Sher's lilting cadence, bushy beard, flowing robes and sinuously Oriental gestures bespeak his status as an outsider in a world, much like our own, where economic imperatives bring diverse peoples into close contact without necessarily allowing them to understand one another...
...lumps. Tucker had taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave no dead or slick patches on the surface. Groping, malleability, squeezing, thumbing bespeak a flat-out commitment to the tactile...