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...Haight's Selections have been judiciously culled from his ninevolume magnum opus. Furnished with explanatory notes, the correspondence may be read as an unselfconscious autobiography recounted in the voice Henry James found as "soft and rich as that of a counselling angel." Eliot also delights in playing the devil with Victorian cant and hypocrisy...
...point: Cherry Jones's first appearance as Jody Bobby's blue denim romantic obsession is very funny she's a biker's moll with a nuclear war phobia and a vearning for a little TECC. when sheappears next, she has undergone a complete metamore phosis from a lizzy devil-may-care funster to a kind but money-grubbing waitress. Thematically, Bobby offer clear expression of the leveling power of social intercourse: dramatically, Bobby...
...coming Matthew Broderick steals the show as Phillippe the Mouse, a devil-may-care pickpocket who saunters through impenetrable fortresses, subterranean passageways and enchanted forests. In the process of extricating himself from the grasp of some rather unsavory soldiers charges with reimprisonng the lawless but lovable Phillippe in the infamous prison of Aguila, our hero meets up with Nararre, the aforementioned chivalrous knight who rescues the Mouse just in time and spirits him off to safety...
Koppel, on ABC's Nightline, is a cool, well-briefed and forceful interviewer. To induce his guest to open up, he neutrally plays devil's advocate for the other side. English-born, he questions in the aggressive, direct English style ("May I put it to you, sir, that . . .") and less in the anonymous accusations so dear to many interviewers ("How do you respond when people accuse...
...effrontery to defect to the West before it was politically necessary. And there Bach is praised for giving "artistic expression to the people's aspirations and endeavors for peace." But he is impervious to political manipulation, as Luther and Wagner are not. He was not seduced by the devil, who tempted so many others to forswear a basic tenet of humanity long before the Wall made the spiritual division of the German soul visible...