Word: bloodless
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Politicians aren't supposed to like journalists. We tend to be speed bumps in their otherwise smooth road to being thought of as flawless human beings. Most politicians, like Gore, deal with this by treating each article as a new transaction, a bloodless negotiation between professionals that leaves nothing personal behind. Bush, however, treats each story like a new credit or debit in his family ledger. It's all personal, especially since the 1988 presidential campaign, when Junior acted as the loyalty enforcer. The Bushes fed hot dogs and lemonade to the reporters at Kennebunkport, even took a special...
...even think of ourselves as hedonists, because that would be too self-conscious. Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust its own talents...
...groans in the audience, but any protesters should just settle down for a minute. Plot has never been the sharpest arrow in Bellow's quiver, and Ravelstein holds true to form. It might, like the author's earlier works, be called a novel of ideas, but that is too bloodless a description of Bellow's signature accomplishment. Again, as always before, he portrays people with ideas--sometimes good, sometimes wacky--bumping into one another and sparking unpredictable reactions. Seasoned Bellow readers do not look forward to what will happen next but rather to what his vivid characters will think...
DIED. HABIB BOURGUIBA, 96, Tunisia's liberator from French colonial rule in 1956, and the nation's pro-Western President for Life until a 1987 bloodless coup; in Monastir, Tunisia. He modernized his country and promoted women's rights and moderation toward Israel...
...story centers around the child of Erich Honecker (Alvin Epstein in a brief role), the secretary-general of the Communist party in East Berlin in 1989. When rioters spill into the streets during the bloodless revolution, Honecker is taken prisoner and his wife, hurrying to hide herself, leaves her child with Pamela Dalrymple (Mary Shultz), a New York socialite on tour in East Berlin who is endlessly excited by the revolution around her. Pamela quickly hires a young rioter, Dulle Griet (Mirjana Jokovic), as an au pair for the child, but the two soon find themselves on the run from...