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...same hot afternoon in Managua, the capital, a vastly different drama was playing to a packed house. Some 4,000 Nicaraguans crowded into the modernistic Don Bosco Church as the new head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says...
...flogging and amputation that you mentioned are neither tolerated nor accepted by the people of Pakistan. The military regime imposes such harsh sentences and carries them out to terrify the masses into submission...
Joan Didion's fourth novel carries a few unnecessary burdens. There is the silly pink book jacket, the pompous flap copy ("a precise and pitiless exploration of lives lived in the harsh glare of public scrutiny") and, worst of all, the title, which is as ostentatious as that of the author's last novel, A Book of Common Prayer. Nor is the reader reassured when this most confident of stylists lodges herself as an extraneous character in the book, discussing narrative ploys that she has considered and rejected and alerting the reader to real or imagined difficulties ahead...
...clan and the wife of a dashing Democratic Senator who wants to be President. In her daily life, Inez must contend with a randy husband, his groupies ("Girls like that come with the life") and standard-issue disaffected children (Jessie shoots heroin, Adlai maims people in car crashes). The harsh glare of public scrutiny, it turns out, means that Inez is so frequently photographed that she thinks of most occasions in life as photo opportunities. In an antic interview, she tells a reporter that the major cost of political life is not loss of privacy but of memory ("You might...
...aristocratic blindness to humane concerns. Bligh is seen losing control of self and ship when his men fail to respond to considerate treatment. The situation worsens when he prudishly disapproves of their licentiousness during their months ashore on the sybaritic island, grows desperate as he attempts to reassert harsh discipline once the ship sets sail again...