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...guilty finger in A Summons to Memphis seems to point nearly everywhere. Phillip's dry, punctilious narrative style hardly jibes with his claims to be a doomed romantic hero. Thinking back on the girl in Chattanooga, he remarks, "Surely no life was ever so quickly and completely transformed by love as mine was." Yet his only visible passion is self-absorption. He cannot even muster much interest in Alex Mercer, "my closest friend there in Memphis." He admits several times his inability to remember just how many children Alex and his wife possess...
...problems we inherited, I think we should be appreciated for being able to do all that we have done. People forget so easily. They think that getting rid of Marcos was something that came naturally, as if it came down from heaven without our having to lift a finger...
...unsuccessfully to stop the book with a $2 million lawsuit three years ago, is declining comment on what his publicist dismisses as "regurgitated material." Instead, he was back doing it his way last week, at the opening of the renovated Chicago Theater, where he got an ovation for his finger-snapping rendition of My Kind of Town. Says Kelley of her subject: "He's the most fascinating man on earth...
...into slavery in 1854 and who lived until 1948. Says Bennett of the homecoming: "It's a great thing. People should know their people." What stories had Bennett's father told of life as a slave child? "About what you imagine," says Bennett. "All they did was what the finger pointed at, what they were told to do." Says Redford, in an aside: "When you talk with Ludie, you really understand how close we still are to the time of slavery...
...Bhopal victims, whose claims of more than $350 million for damages are to be filed in an Indian court later this month. Said Stanley Chesley, one of three court-appointed lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the U.S.: "The company is trying to soften hostility in India by pointing the finger at someone else...