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...writer who casts a preacher as a fool and a villain had best not be preachy. Kingsolver manages not to be, in part because she is a gifted magician of words--her sleight-of-phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, in which social issues involving Native Americans remained mostly in the background. The clear intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking...
...felt dizzy and had to grab hold of a nearby chair. Shock. Utter disbelief. Incomprehension. It took a bit for nasty reality to truly sink in. How could the fool who voted against the Gulf War actually...
STEP 3 O.K., O.K., admit it. Although just in a private letter. Which somehow gets into the hands of the media: "The Yiddish word I used to describe you at a private meeting means 'fool...
...When I debate, I want you to get angry, I want you to lose your cool. When you do, you look like a fool. Unfortunately, that happened to both candidates last night," he said...
...border with them"; He: "My mother was going to...kick my ass"); and having a second child (She: "I wanted to have other children with Vili"; He: "I didn't really feel ready for another baby...She should have told me. I wouldn't have looked like such a fool"). Letourneau is serving a 7 1/2-year prison sentence, and last week gave birth to their second child, a girl...