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Candidates have always tried to catch the other guy going negative as a pretext for going negative themselves. But now it seems that the party of John Wayne is becoming the party of John Tesh. Bush wails like a cheap car alarm over the most minor incursion--and attacks at the same time. Last Friday he was the first to unleash a frontal-attack ad. And for a year, he's laced every speech with rhetoric aimed at Gore's integrity and concluded most of those speeches with a pledge to "restore honor and integrity to the White House." What...
...director, Neil LaBute, is attentive to them, in a way that he was not when he was directing his own screenplays--In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors--which were so claustrophobic, so tense with the desire to hurt and shock. Here he makes time for minor characters--barkeeps, small-town newsmen, cops--whose dreamy oddness he catches in a few sly, nonjudgmental glances...
Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti was born at a disadvantage. The ninth child of a minor count in the town of Senigallia, he applied early to join the Pope's Noble Guards. They rejected him: guards did not have epilepsy. A biographer quoted him complaining that because of his condition, he "could not concentrate on a subject for any length of time without having to worry about his ideas getting terribly confused." He was ordained in 1819 on condition that another priest always be present when he celebrated Mass. By 1827 he was Archbishop of Spoleto...
...found some things," Shaughnessy says, "but compared with most homes we get called to, they're extremely minor." The physical is over. We're going to live after...
Summers' book is so unrelievedly hostile, so committed to satanizing the strange man from Whittier, that I find myself wanting to defend Nixon - which is quite a novel impulse for me. Even Oliver Stone, who has a minor genius for mischievous dark cartooning (as in his contemptible movie "JFK," with its hallucinations of kitchen-sink conspiracy), treated Nixon as a complex and in some ways sympathetic figure. H.R. Haldeman had it about right when he compared Nixon to "a multifaceted quartz crystal. Some facets bright and shining, others dark and mysterious. And all of them constantly changing as the external...