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...memorable chapter deals with the Tarahumara Indians of "the rugged southwestern corner of the state of Chihuahua, in the heart of the Sierra Madre Occidental." They are legendary long- distance runners--tall, lean, high-cheekboned men who play a nonstop kickball game over what may be two days and at distances of up to 100 miles. But when they cross the finish line, they more or less ignore the winner, acting as if nothing unusual had happened. Shoumatoff writes that the Tarahumara never accepted the Spanish culture and religion, but that lately their culture has been brutalized by narco-traficantes...
...lose their stomach for a fight. William Weld got a severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...
...Tone, and Meredith's own turn as a hapless myopic accused of double murder. Laughton is Inspector Maigret, the portliest policeman since Orson in Touch of Evil, and Tone is Radek, his "Candide"-quoting psychopathic prey. From behind the camera (reportedly with some help from Laughton), Meredith delivers a lean, cerebral mystery with plenty of wit, and one that never pauses for clich?. One minor flaw: Meredith's landmark-spiked view of Paris, which is even credited with a 'role' in the film, is utterly bereft of French-speaking or even French-sounding people. (Or is that really a flaw...
...than just one more run of a mill where the molds are never broken. Our misconception can perhaps be laid to the advertising industry, which had drummed into us that New! new! new! meant Better! better! better! Now, of course, we are neither new nor better. But we were lean and energetic in those days, and there were lots of us, so we thought we could change the world. Our parents disagreed. Remember the generation gap? (Or was that a clothing store?) We thought our mothers and fathers were materialistic, hypocritical sell-outs. They thought we were spoiled brats. There...
...Arafat the cascade of events felt like an avalanche. By being lax on security issues, he had flirted with trouble, and the extremists had taken advantage. Before the bombing, the U.S. was prepared to lean on Netanyahu to make concessions that would restart negotiations, but now, suddenly, the full weight of American pressure has been shifted onto the Palestinians. In addition, the sting of Israel's reprisals comes at a time when Arafat's government is squirming under revelations of corruption...