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...Lyndon Johnsons and Everett Dirksens of the past. With one exception, the new breed are committee chairmen rather than members of the formal leadership (which was all but reformed out of business a couple of decades ago). In cutting deals, the modern lions rely as much on suasion as brute political force, and when they have to fight dirty, they prefer the stiletto to brass knuckles. They are policy mavens who can match any calculator-toting Administration whiz kid, statistic for statistic and program for program. They command personal respect even in an institution crowded with overweening White House wannabes...
...ISSUE HAD BEEN DESCRIBED BY AN AIDE AS "A brute," and for a week Bill Clinton marched the brute around Washington for all to see. Only after the public viewing did he undertake to decide what to do about his most vexing foreign policy problem...
...woman comes frighteningly alive, collective, suddenly legitimized, glorious even. What would be individual shame now blossoms into shamelessness. The weak and vicious transfer their worst defects to the larger cause (Greater Serbia, perhaps). Thus does self-pity become selfless and, by this magic, righteous. And thus a brute killer portrays himself as a victim, who is therefore infinitely justified. Ethnic cleansing is merely injured virtue catching up. Nothing is more empowering, as they say, than being a victim. It is the Rolls-Royce of self-justifications, a plenary indulgence. W.H. Auden described it as if it were one of Newton...
...Lozeau (Maxime Collin) lives in a Montreal hovel with his surpassingly strange family. Father (Roland Blouin) is a brute laborer; "wrinkles line his face and reveal nothing but the age that dug them." Mother (Ginette Reno) loves the boy, but she is obsessed with bowel movements as nature's prophylactic -- "Push, my love," she whispers urgently to the infant Leo, a captive princeling enthroned on a potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that...
...avenues of discussion is a noble pursuit. All too often on college campuses and in society as a whole people avoid issues that are uncomfortable, including many involving race relations. But Mansfield methods were clumsy and harmful. A crusade for open discussion requires tact as much as brute force...