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SUBTRACT DRUGS FROM THE bloody San Diego gang scene that reporter Bob Sipchen describes -- go ahead, wave a wand -- and the festering urban mess still would stink of hopelessness. Sipchen, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began...
...epigraph of the book's first chapter quoted Lincoln's reason for relieving General John Fremont of his Missouri command during the Civil War: "His cardinal mistake is that he isolates himself and allows nobody to see him," Lincoln wrote. "That's it," said Clinton as he drove. "The key to being an effective political leader is getting around. Lincoln was always out and about picking up information. He wasn't a prisoner in the White House. He was one of the few Presidents to regularly visit working sessions of the Congress. I do that too, with the legislature here...
...just for a moment speculate, shall we?" Stone embraces contradictions, or maybe he just trucks over them. What Garrison tells his staff, Stone tells his viewers: "Now we're through the looking glass here, people. White is black, and black is white." But the film's true epigraph might be the counsel that "X" gives Garrison: "Don't take my word. Do your own work -- your own thinkin...
Robertson Davies' new book Murther and Walking Spirits begins with this epigraph: "Printers finde by experience that one Murther is worth two monsters, and at least three Walking Spirits... where Murthers and Walking Spirits meet, there is no other Narrative can come near...
...prefaced Reflections with an epigraph taken from Goethe's Faust...