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During eight terms in Congress, Florio had a reputation as a somewhat sanctimonious loner, better known for tending to constituent needs than for innovative leadership. Even as a candidate, he skirted specifics, going so far as to proclaim that he did not see the need for new taxes. But budget realities and the assumption of command revealed a very different Jim Florio. "Legislatures react," he says crisply. "Executives initiate." With 67% of New Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained...
Love it. Dick Tracy's look surely does merit rapture, but the movie also has wit and grace in a film era of witless gross-out. Scan the bold sweep of the narrative, which poses ripe dilemmas of career, love and family for a loner sleuth. Hum the songs written by Stephen Sondheim in his (hummable) Follies mode and splendidly performed by Madonna and Patinkin. Attend to the bold filigree work of the film's supporting cast of rogues, most of whom are devil- dolled up in grotesque prostheses and outlandish mannerisms but are given ample room to strut their...
...mother and an Algerian father who left the family when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military for being "asocial...
...loner by temperament and circumstance -- his family was constantly relocating from one drab Piedmont town to another -- Price describes the boy he was as "a born witness or spy . . . helplessly fascinated by the ritual power of language." In Clear Pictures he comes across as a precocious Dixie dandy, worrying earnestly about God and masturbation, and toadying up to visiting artistes like the great contralto Marian Anderson by sending them portraits he had sketched from publicity stills...
...what his detractors claimed: a self-aggrandizing charlatan. But he took no pleasure in his notoriety; he ran from it. The Selected Letters adds another interpretation to an already overwrought tale. The age demanded a hero, Lawrence qualified, and the 20th century then got what it deserved: a loner, an ascetic, a man who might have been happier as a medieval monk than as the public cynosure he became. No paragon in his own eyes, Lawrence nonetheless remains a haunting presence in the contemporary consciousness, an indissoluble mixture of weaknesses and strength...