Word: hickman
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...fences is to bring back pollster CELINDA LAKE. A specialist on the women's vote and a favorite of many Democratic activists, Lake was hired with great fanfare months ago, then promptly sidelined. She is expected to be taking a larger role, working in tandem with lead pollster HARRISON HICKMAN. Gore also plans to meet with two dozen or so influential Democratic women to talk strategy and policy...
Dedicated by Ellison "to that Vanished Tribe into Which I Was Born: The American Negroes"--he proudly and defiantly resisted the successive fads to rename that tribe--Juneteenth turns on the complex relationship between an ex-jazzman and trickster turned preacher, Alonzo Hickman, and his white--or nearly white--foster child, Bliss. Hickman reluctantly agrees to midwife and then raise this child of a white woman whose false accusation of rape had caused his brother to be lynched. Bliss, though lovingly nurtured by his stepfather, eventually runs away in search of his lost mother and later transforms himself into Senator...
...Despite Hickman's attempts to warn his long-departed prodigal son, a black assassin shoots Sunraider on the floor of the Senate. The novel's action takes place on what we assume to be the Senator's deathbed in the form of remembered riffs of sermons, folktales, signifying and the dozens, in an often dazzling extended call-and-response pattern suggestive of two dueling horns in an after-hours gig at a jazz club...
...scandal cognoscenti, there was nothing new in the headline last week that KEN STARR'S chief deputy once drafted an indictment against HILLARY CLINTON. But the confirmation by prosecutor W. HICKMAN EWING, coming at the outset of Whitewater figure SUSAN MCDOUGAL'S trial for contempt, sent chills through the First Lady and those advising her as she considers a run for a New York Senate seat, sources say. As a sign of things to come, says one, "this most recent news gives you pause...
...scandal cognoscenti, there was nothing new in the headline last week that Ken Starr?s chief deputy once drafted an indictment against Hillary Clinton. But the confirmation by prosecutor W. Hickman Ewing, coming at the outset of Whitewater figure Susan McDougal?s trial for contempt, sent chills through the First Lady and those advising her as she considers a run for a New York Senate seat, sources say. As a sign of things to come, says one, ?this most recent news gives you pause...