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...scientist who turns leprous when he drinks a sex potion; a prisoner who finds brief orgasmic release, and pays for it; a child who kills his abusive father -- all are outcasts, poison to society. Only the child escapes, jumping from a window and soaring into his idea of heaven: oblivion...
What then is shadow in Ted Kennedy? It is not only impossible to say but also presumptuous. A man with Kennedy's temperament and past may need a sort of unofficial self that he can plunge back into now and then -- a rowdy, loutish oblivion where he feels easy, where he takes a woozy vacation from being a Kennedy. It is said that a drunk stops growing emotionally at the age at which he began serious drinking. That would probably be the age then of the unofficial self...
Watching the Iraqi Kurds and Shiites sink into oblivion, oppressed people everywhere now know that they had better keep quiet, whatever the American President says. That brutal silence--that is the new world order...
America's most watched business-news channel nearly had to report its own demise. Owing $142 million and losing money, Financial News Network Inc. was headed for oblivion until, last week, it finally accomplished what it had been trying for five months: it sold important assets and raised cash. Dow Jones and Westinghouse Broadcasting jointly bought the flagship FNN cable news channel plus the company's weekend sports service, its syndicated program This Morning's Business and a radio news service for about $90 million...
Gates is the nation's preeminent scholar in the field of Afro-American literature and, according to peers, the person with the entrepreneurial spirt necessary to bring the department back from the brink of oblivion...