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...further. In Iowa and New Hampshire, he presented himself almost purely as a man whose record was what counted. Now, as he reaches toward the rest of the country, he will have to persuade that great electorate of something more: that his clipped and controlled exterior is only a mask that conceals a more expansive and adventurous and caring self. Americans crave that kind of connection with the person of the President...
...twin sister Savannah, a successful poet, shakes Tom free, enabling him to question his ingrained Southern ideals. The response of his mother Lila to the episode--a woman who defines for Tom all that is wrong with the South--serves as a metaphor for the South's need to mask tragedy, and the obstacles Tom must overcome. Lila herself cannot go to visit her daughter because she has a dinner party planned for that weekend. "She's in one of those silly states she goes into when she wants attention," says Lila, attributing her daughter's condition to a lack...
Conroy systematically exposes rotting southern ideals and prejudices through Lowenstein's continuous probing. Slowly the mask is unpeeled. But The Prince of Tides is not a celebration of the ethos of New York City. For in the end, Tom returns to the South, this time content with himself, and conscious of the "demonology" of his youth. While by no means an autobiographical work, one gets the sense that Conroy is exploring his own relationship with the South. It is our good fortune that he has chosen...
...premature babies lay inside incubators and did not stop to collect a stuffed animal. But most other patients did. One small girl in a wheelchair peeked out over her oxygen mask, pointed her finger and said clearly, "the purple...
...arms-for-hostages swap, and that he was negotiating with the most "radical elements" in Iran, not with moderates. Bush told Rather he believed Nir was talking about an Israeli operation. But Fuller's summary says Nir specifically told Bush how the Israelis had taken pains to mask U.S. involvement and even described what had happened when he accompanied Robert McFarlane on a secret trip to Tehran the previous May. On the campaign trail last week Bush said Nir presented him with only a "tiny piece of a very complicated puzzle," and he simply did not grasp its meaning...