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...time Winfrey was a teenager, her gift as an orator and dramatist had won her considerable popularity at both church and school, and she often recited moving depictions of slave life. She began using the iron-willed protagonists she found in black literature to fire her dreams of rising beyond the back-breaking work that seemed the destiny of most of the black people she knew. "I remember Grandma trying to teach me how to wash clothes and lay them across the line with clothespins, making lye soap, killing the hogs, wringing the chickens' necks, and she'd say, 'Watch...
...direction of Jonathan Demme, Winfrey's Sethe is a creature as stern as she is strong--as much oak as flesh and blood. She moves with the heaviness of someone dragging large and fatal memories behind her like a full steamer trunk. She is, as the book puts it, "iron-eyed"; her gaze is an Old Testament judgment, her love a demon that can crush those it enfolds. The actress and the character share intelligence and passion, but in many particulars Sethe is the anti-Oprah. If Sethe were a talk-show host, she would stare down her guests...
Harvard football fans hoping to tune into grid-iron action from their home computers were out of luck last Saturday...
...Evil Empire was good news for us. If there was a thorn in the side of the Kremlin, we were on the side of the thorn in the side. While the cold war was going on, we actually rooted for droughts, so long as they were behind the Iron Curtain. A drought causes food shortages that could divert military spending or even destabilize the government. I personally drew the line at floods and pestilence, but, then, the people known as hard-liners during the cold war always suspected me of being a softie...
...factory's party boss is getting a bit plump, but I'm confused about why it's all right for the Chinese to do that sort of thing and still be our pals. See how complicated it is? Sometimes I find myself wondering what they did with the Iron Curtain after the cold war ended. Did they throw it out? Or is it just in a basement somewhere with a lot of large busts of Lenin, ready to be put back if everyone misses it too much...