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...after the Iowa caucuses, an earthquake shook New Hampshire. It was a small tremor, just enough to give folks a jolt. On the same day, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas swept into the Granite State for a final round of campaigning before this week's primary. The often tightly coiled politician seemed a changed man: jaunty, self-possessed, rejuvenated. After winning the Iowa contest with 38% of the Republican vote, he suddenly had the aura of a champion. "We're winning!" he exulted as he greeted a supporter in Nashua. His rhetoric was sharper, his jokes funnier, his rapport with...
...Seville had been something of a sleeper. The games had been mostly lackluster, with all but six of the first 22 ending in a draw, as the two Soviet opponents reined in their simmering disdain for each other. But last week the chess world came awake with a jolt...
...speedy talk tends to jar listeners--which is the main reason why attending T.M.U. lectures is as stimulating as gulping down a gallon of Jolt cola. "People around me start to twitch," says Maschitta. "I can start talking and I know they are going to be up until...
...ending works, though, not only as a jolt for the audience but also in resolving the drama on its own perfervid terms. Once Alex, the nightmare shrew, has threatened the dream family, she must be faced down by the family. Once Dan has sinned, only Beth can forgive him, by saving his life. Once Alex has invaded the home, she must be killed by the homemaker; the Wife must destroy the Other Woman...
...figure in Munch's Scream; for no clear reason the lower half of the body is left standing up behind it, like a pair of empty waders, in the bland spectral light of what appears to be an indoor swimming pool. At such moments Rothenberg's imagery delivers the jolt and reach of feeling one associates with the poetry of Sylvia Plath. She is unquestionably one of the signal artists of our confused time...