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...example is Susan Cavin's Lesbian Origins, hailed by Women's Studies enthusiasts as a future "classic" in the field. Cavin doesn't screw around, so to speak. The book's first sentence is blunt: "I am a lesbian feminist sociologist." Pages later, having uncovered "a logic to the ideology of sex," debunked "capitalist patriarchs" and explored "Cross-Cultural Lesbianism," Cavin waxes philosophical...
...Donaldson is probably the nation's best-known political reporter and almost certainly the most controversial. His blunt phrasing of questions is exceeded only by his brash style of lobbing them like grenades, ambushing Presidents at every photo opportunity. Hold On, Mr. President -- a phrase that Donaldson says he has never actually used but that typifies his approach -- is in large part an attempt to justify his manner to readers who think him disrespectful. Although he offers plenty of eyewitness disclosures about Ronald Reagan fumbling over details and Jimmy Carter ruthlessly playing to win, he emphasizes the growing difficulty...
...levels of emotion, transforming even love into a blind, uncontrollable desire for sexual possession and ultimately into a crime punishable by death. Sibiya's greatest hope and Nkosi's greatest goal is to free the people of South Africa from this cruel tragedy; Mating Birds is so singleminded and blunt only because the emotion is so strong...
...knives are out. If Deng died tomorrow, this place would be a real mess." With those blunt words, a senior Western diplomat in Peking summarized the view of China watchers around the world about the country's new power struggle. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping appears to be in trouble, and his vaunted economic reforms may also be imperiled...
...fair and useful arms-control plan. They are standing in the one place they can be candid, a small stretch of forest near the villas where, with grave and formal ceremony, they daily meet. Shared frustration has made them intimates, if still not quite friends, so the answer is blunt: "We don't trust you." Long years at the table have persuaded the Soviet that neither government will actually reduce armaments; neither side can afford the risky belief that the other is acting in good faith. The value of talks, the Soviet continues, is the fact of talking rather than...