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...deep, lasting, highly favourable impression,” Goodman tells us. He quotes a fellow activist, Edmund Morel, recalling his first impressions of Casement: “I saw before me a man, my own height, very lithe and sinewy... A long lean, swarthy Vandyke type of face, graven with power and withal of great gentleness.” Casement emerges as a brave and sensitive campaigner with a strong sense of moral purpose, dogged in his pursuit of Arana, who, having driven out all competition for rubber-production in Iquitos by 1907, had succeeded in “turning...
...Children is written in Tolkien's full-on high heroic style, which is light on the characterization and sometimes hilariously dorky. (An example, chosen more or less at random: Túrin's helmet "was made of grey steel adorned with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender...
...Wilks has devised in celebration of the alphabet. Each picture in The Ultimate Alphabet (Holt; $19.95) contains a multitude of objects illustrating a single letter. Among the 259 items in G, the reader is invited to identify a Gypsy guitarist garbed in gaudy garments in a graveyard full of graven images. The T painting teems with 427 items, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee and enough trees to traumatize a topiarist. For the reader who spots the most words, the publishers offer a $15,000 prize...
...most difficult way to be popular is to tell people what they can eat. When Christians retooled Judaism, they didn't excise the Old Testament rules on adultery or idolizing graven images; they started drawing up plans for Tony Roma's and Red Lobsters. Martin Luther could have saved himself 94 theses just by posting one about getting rid of fish on Friday. The Scientology Celebrity Center in Hollywood has a Sunday brunch buffet you would not believe...
...both firm in his belief that he did the greatest good for the greatest number and flooded with remorse for sending sailors he knew to an early death. The movie is unusual and mature in dramatizing the burdens of power. Reagan's face seems graven, his body made ponderous by his executive authority--an impression he rarely gave as a seemingly jaunty President...