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...carefully modulated performance, yet whenever he touched on his hot-button issues he began to wave his arms and wag his finger as if he were at a street-corner rally. Zhirinovsky justified his frequently bizarre behavior as "tactical." "It's the sorry state of affairs in this country that forces me to take so tough a stand to avert something even worse," he said. "If there were a healthy economy and security for the people, I would lose all the votes I have...
...Simpson and Ron Goldman, a public game is in play between O.J.'s accusers and his defenders. The aim is to persuade people that they do not know what they think they know. What they think they know is that O.J. is the world's nicest guy, a smile button on winged feet, but that the murder case against him is all but overwhelming. What they learned last week is that Simpson may not be quite the man he seemed, even as it also emerged that the evidence against him may not be all it was reported...
Kien takes over from there. The fictional author forces the reader and himself through a "parade of memories" that "push upstream like a sampan toward the past." Some are gentle, as when his squad mistakenly receives a shipment of bras and side-button pants. Others are stark, as when he collapses drunk at Saigon airport at war's end and wakes up next to a dead, naked prostitute...
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