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...From the moment she launched her presidential campaign a year ago, the Socialist old guard has treated Royal's popularity as a sign of Cain. Behind it lurked the image of a siren luring the party faithful from the course of ideological purity and onto the shoals of populism. Adherents of this line - by no means all oldsters; the Young Socialists organization was in the thick of it - tended to ignore the glaringly obvious fact that the purists' favorite son, former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, got clobbered in the last presidential elections in 2002. The Socialists finished third in that...
...things are easier than telling a lie, and few things are harder than spotting one when it's told to us. We've been trying to suss out liars ever since Cain fibbed to God about murdering Abel. While God was not fooled--hearing the blood of Abel crying out from the land--the rest of us do not have such divine lie-detection gifts...
...Hammett, Chandler and James M. Cain all wrote novels that were turned into A pictures (respectively, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity) that still play well today. Spillane, who outsold them all, and I mean all together, should have got some sharp films made from his work, through his power or the law of averages. But the very elements that made him a hot property on the paperback market - the sex and violence - made him too hot for '50s Hollywood. If the studio bosses didn't exactly blacklist Spillane, they didn't rush to film his books...
...stage curtain watched over by the Queen's portrait and a packet of sparklers are the simple sense-memory props that begin the journey: we are backstage at an end-of-year school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puckish Tom (Leon Cain), the son of poor English migrants, is making his first tentative teenage overtures to middle-class Meg (Francesca Savige); her shrewish mother Gwen (Barbara Lowing) in turn is being gently snubbed by the headmaster's aloof wife Coral (Georgina Symes). As the three families go their separate ways over Christmas?to camp, caravan park and Gold...
...sword. Allah is sublime beyond all particulars. There is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsistent; He is the light by which the sun looks black. He does not blend with our reason but makes our reason bow low, its forehead scraping the dust and bearing like Cain the mark of that dust. Mohammed was a mortal man but visited Paradise and consorted with the realities there. Our deeds and thoughts were written in the Prophets consciousness in letters of gold, like the burning words of electrons that a computer creates of pixels as we tap the keyboard...