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...field, the baseball star has always seemed to have a more sharply defined persona than other athletes do. Decades pass, and still we feel we know them. Babe Ruth, the profane if lovable libertine; Mickey Mantle, the gifted man-child; Roger Maris, the decent citizen victimized and nearly rendered mute by the crippling weight of publicity. But of all the baseball titans, Mark McGwire in some ways most resembles Joe DiMaggio, coincidentally stricken by life-threatening illness just as McGwire was setting the home-run record. Admired by their teammates, considerate of their foes, blessed with a spare, natural grace...
Stymied intelligence agents turned to the underworld for help. Lansky, known in the '30s for breaking heads at pro-Nazi meetings, acted as liaison and was allowed to visit Luciano. Lucky put the word out to cooperate, and formerly mute dockworkers, fishermen and hoodlums became the eyes and ears of naval intelligence. Soon eight German spies, who had landed by U-boat, were arrested, and explosives, maps and blueprints for sabotage were seized...
...downplaying these small moments of mayhem,Ethan Frome pays homage to Wharton, making them all the more powerful. Ethan Frome is not sturm und drang, but rather a tale of mute desperation. Allanbrook Sr. and Hunt should be commended for keeping their opera true to a difficult, complex novella...
...Bunning (R) featured black-and-white mute shots of a screaming Scotty Baesler (D). The ad sparked controversy, with wags saying the images made Baesler look Hitleresque and would backfire. But Bunning is going to the Senate...
...Clinton's first instinct is to find a compromise, hers is to fight. She has the advantage that her conversations with her husband are still legally protected, unlike just about everyone else's. One reason why all the people who usually guide Clinton out of tough spots are mute this time is fear that Starr can haul them before a grand jury to repeat their advice; the other reason is more tender. No one wants to suggest in front of his wife that the President may have been less than faithful and plot a strategy accordingly...