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...which the narrator explores a subject through his own relation with it, and memoirs in which the narrator explores herself through some external topic. Her discussion of the writings of Oscar Wilde, Edward Hoagland, Natalia Ginzburg, James Baldwin Orwell and Lynn Darling, among others, is done with the deft hand of an experienced teacher, and an effective use of quotes and passages make it possible to follow her arguments without having read the essay she is discussing in its entirety...
Kati Marton's Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History (Pantheon Books; 414 pages; $25), provides a deft survey of a dozen First Couples, from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George Bush. Marton mixes some good history with a lot of pop marriage psychology to show the part that patience, tolerance, insight, determination, sex and occasionally even love have played in the pursuit and exercise of presidential power. Without the ladies, she argues, many of the men for whom Hail to the Chief has been played probably would have ended up as peanut merchants, obscure lawyers...
...first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?") and then--could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition?--the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake of The War of the Worlds or for Independence Day. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which...
...first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike (?Am I seeing this??), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition??the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake of The War of the Worlds or for Independence Day. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which...
...first plane striking the first tower acted as a shill. It alerted the media, brought cameras to the scene so that they might be set up to record the vivid surreal bloom of the second strike ("Am I seeing this?"), and then?could they be such engineering geniuses, so deft at demolition? - the catastrophic collapse of the two towers, one after the other, and a sequence of panic in the streets that might have been shot for a remake of The War of the Worlds or for Independence Day. Evil possesses an instinct for theater, which...