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...words of the blind meld together without paragraphs, quotation marks or periods. Separated only by commas, the statements of the blind become a confused mass of speech. Language loses its personal nature and the horror of the situation melds into one voice, one breath, one cry of profound despair...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Among the Blind, Chaos is King | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...over her husband's infidelity. Junor claims that Diana, not Charles, was the first to break the marriage vows--by having an affair with her personal security officer, Barry Mannakee, who was killed in a 1987 motorcycle accident. When Diana learned of Mannakee's death, Junor writes, "in her despair she slashed herself, and the dress she wore in Cannes had to be adjusted to hide the damage." While Morton maintained that Diana was right to be jealous of Camilla, Junor insists that for years after the wedding, Camilla was just one of Charles' many good friends. Junor also asserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defending The Prince | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Unless we are saved by the Tom Harkin Rule. In 1992 Iowa Senator Tom Harkin decided to seek the presidency; his fellow Democrats left the Hawkeye State to the native Hawkeye. While that left Iowa's hoteliers and restaurateurs in despair, it liberated a few thousand of us from the joys of standing ankle-deep in frozen mud while a candidate talked to four shivering Iowans, seven cows and 35 camera crews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Already, a Media Bias! | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Robin Williams, fresh from his Academy Award, again leaves his comedic training behind him in his role as Chris Nielsen, who dies in a car accident and must travel from heaven to hell to save his wife (Annabella Sciorra) after she commits suicide in her despair over his death. Although the plot is the standard quest situation, it demands that the film deal with the question of religion, God and the afterlife. Somehow they drop God from the plot. They're good. How's God just going to be absent from heaven? A better question is how Robin Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...expression. The disenchanted reporter seems oddly calm as he packs his bags, forsaking his love to escape the corrupt society of man. Celimene, on the other hand, sits alone, quietly nursing a drink as the lights fade out on her shattered world. Shohet's soulful portrayal of Celimene's despair would be a perfectly fine way to conclude the play...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Moliere Thrives in Jazz Age | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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