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...already threatening to run for President when he was shot down in the late summer of 1935 by a man whose family he had ruined. Almost equally malign was a Roman Catholic priest, Father Charles Coughlin, whose ardent and often anti-Semitic broadcasts from his Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak, Mich., brought him a vast following (he regularly received 80,000 letters a week). To overthrow Roosevelt, whom Coughlin denounced as "anti-God," the priest joined forces with Dr. Townsend, the pension crusader, and one of Long's nastier henchmen, the Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith...
...remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock or a breast, the petals of a flower rising on its stalk, or-in some of the drawings-the black propped lid of a grand piano. The body image is confirmed particularly in a work like Untitled #45, which is haunted by the swollen, vegetative forms of 1930s Picasso, rather than 1914 Matisse. Of course, the drawings also seem more...
...even between the Catholics in the north and south. The connections show up in indirect ways. Teen-age girls in Belfast adore the romantic novels of Joan Lingard, especially Across the Barricades ("when Catholic Kevin and Protestant Sadie are old enough for their hitherto un acknowledged attraction to flower into love"). It is not wishful thinking, exactly; Bernadette admits she would never date a Prod, because "nothing could come of it." But the possibility exists, nonetheless?a fact that infuriates the gunmen at the doors...
...consistently outmaneuvered the government team. Every evening, Walesa would climb the flower-covered main gate to give news of the talks to the crowd outside. His appearance was greeted by cheers and rousing choruses of Sto Lat (May He Live a Hundred Years). He responded with his actor's instincts, regaling his audience with jokes and raising his clenched fist in salute. Bantering with foreign journalists, he announced, "I am the leader...
...middle-class boys, about traveling to the ends of the earth to fight for justice, becoming swallowed up by events, and dying a hero, dying in the arms of the beautiful, maternal woman who has followed along--a beautiful woman who weeps and cradles her man like a precious flower that has withered in the heat. This image, and the tender portrait of reconciliation on the posters, is the mushy and affecting core of Warren Beatty's Reds, a movie bereft of political ideology and ultimately uninterested in the Russian Revolution. It's about a rich Harvard boy with...