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...most daunting task, however, was unraveling the elaborately contrapuntal structure of Scott's novels. Scott, whose work won much of its success after his death from cancer in 1978 at age 57, was a former British army officer with three years' experience in India. Less a fluent stylist than a ferociously honest and fair-minded observer, he was determined to do justice to both sides of the equation in British India. In order to portray the Empire in the round, he told his almost 2,000-page story through a complex symphony of flashbacks, fast-forward prolepses...
...Ryder in the PBS production of Brideshead Revisited. Playing a neurotic isn't easy, but playing him in another language is a real test of skill. To be sure, in the version released in France, Irons' voice was dubbed in, but the American version displays Irons speaking a remarkably fluent French. His accent only adds to Swann's vaguely foreign origins...
Shipler, one of the new breed of correspondents (he speaks fluent Russian and attended the Russian Institute at Columbia University) has doubts...
...notion that happy days are here again. "Reagan is our past speaking to us," says Political Historian Garry Wills, "and we want to remember with him." Furthermore, as Britain's weekly Economist noted, "Republicans have no hangups about patriotism." The conservative President in particular has always been fluent and profuse with the imagery and language of conventional, Decoration Day patriotism. Says Frank Quam, a farm-management teacher in Stewartville, Minn.: "Reagan is of that nature, the flag waving, and people like that." The Democrats, for their part, have a very tricky path to navigate. In a holdover from...
...Houston, Santa Anna, the Civil War, Reconstruction; he is fluent in such things. I wondered why most Texans, for all their free anti-Government spirit, are Democrats. Because a Republican Governor was foisted on the people during Reconstruction, he said, and Texans don't forget. "I was the first elected Republican Governor of Texas." Texas stayed Democratic with Roosevelt, because "Roosevelt was the Moses of the 1930s." Is Reagan the Moses of the 1980s? "Texans relate to him. He says the right things. He looks the right way. His manner is Texas...