Word: candor
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...called humiliating and embarrassing anecdotes aren't really all that humiliating and embarrassing. If you're going to base an entire performance on agonizing moments, then they had better be totally outrageous. This is clearly where Kron falls short. But we forgive poor, put-upon Lisa, admire her candor and laugh easily because it's nice to hear about crap happening to other people once in a while...
Cantwell's candor--her open honesty letting us become party to the most intimate details of her life, hopes and dreams--makes her life emerge with a wonderful fullness. The problem with the memoir, and with Cantwell's own life, is her marriage. It is described from a postdivorce viewpoint and is thus colored throughout as a negative relationship. From the start we await its collapse and wondering at Cantwell's constancy. And unfortunately Cantwell is unable to carry her memoir much beyond her ruined marriage. She succumbs to the plague of so many women's autobiographies, not exploring...
...Russia's exemplary disarmament performance. To date, Russia has been disarming at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 missiles per year; a move on our part to continue missile testing could sacrifice the future of this program and place at risk the hard-won U.S.-Russian candor now prevalent in nuclear politics, More importantly, it could give new fuel to the extremist view in Russia that NATO's hegemony of Eastern Europe will bring western military installations--stockpiled with freshly tested warheads--unprecedentedly and threateningly close to Moscow...
Such topics make most men squeamish, but Dole's candor is likely to help him. His decision to release a detailed nine-page set of his medical records last week could go a long way toward reassuring voters that at 72, he is still in robust health. The average man who lives to be that age can, according to actuarial tables, expect to live an additional 11 years and four months. Dole's health report shows him to be solidly above average for this stage of life. "It's remarkably unremarkable," says Dr. Mark Williams, 45, a geriatrician...
...cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive about a problem that doesn't really exist now but might flare up on them later," saysTIME's Michael Duffy. "By laying the predicate of candor and disclosure now, they not only take the issue off the table, they force other candidates to play at their level of openness. We'll see a lot of hematology charts flying over faxes in the next few weeks...