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I have one small but important objection to her article. Grossman used the term "naive redneck" to describe the kind of people who are attracted to a place like Heritage U.S.A. I must strenuously object to such cavalier use of a term that is at least as offensive as other...
Perhaps the most instructive information that has emerged recently, notes Nashville Tennessean Editor John Seigenthaler, is that "libel suits can be brought on because plaintiffs are infuriated by the cavalier treatment they get from the newspaper staff." What many libel plaintiffs really seek is an apology, a means of reply...
Other recent scandals have their roots in a similar do-your-own-thing attitude toward rules. Marine guards at the Moscow embassy bristled at strictures forbidding fraternization with foreign nationals, particularly Soviet citizens. For years many on Wall Street have held a cavalier attitude toward insider-trading laws. No one...
For God's sunniest slave, a film of sensuous austerity. Alain Cavalier's biography plays the incidents in Therese's life as terse vignettes. The background is a spare, off-white wall. There are no raised voices or unnecessary gestures. Here stark 19th century mysticism meets skeptical 20th century minimalism...
Therese (played with fierce clarity by Catherine Mouchet) was one of four Martin sisters in the convent at Lisieux. The film portrays it as a true community, a beautiful sisterhood. For novices like Therese, every act of abasement is another wondrous rite of initiation into a high-spirited sorority of...