Word: orally
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...Tammy, Jimmy, Jerry, Oral, Pat. With other evangelistic stars beset by scandal, political controversy or organizational woe, the untainted Billy Graham remains America's most admired religious leader. And the most durable. "My schedule is just as heavy as when I was 40," says Graham, who this week reached 70. His 1988 itinerary has featured revival meetings, drop-ins at both U.S. political conventions and breakthrough tours in two Communist lands...
White focuses on the 1986 case of Marsee vs. United States Tobacco Company, to show how a company's evasive policies can work to its advantage. Arguing that the head of U.S. Tobacco refused to answer questions pertaining to the charges that Sean Marsee died from oral cancer as a direct result of chewing tobacco daily for seven years, White presents convincing excerpts from the case testimony...
...last week's oral arguments, Julius Chambers, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, argued against overturning Runyon by stressing that it had become a "significant part of the web of congressional and judicial efforts to rid the country of public and private discrimination." Surprisingly, when Manhattan attorney Roger Kaplan argued to overturn the ruling, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who had voted to rehear the case, asked from the bench, "Let's concede that ((Runyon)) is wrong. So what? What's special about this case to require us to go back and change our decision?" When Kaplan...
...understand what the hubbub is about will leave this book little the wiser. Brodkey is obviously talented, but his skills are quirky and obsessive, perhaps more mesmerizing to him than to casual spectators. There is Innocence, for example, which contains what is probably the longest description of oral sex in the history of literature. (This story decidedly did not appear in The New Yorker.) For page after page a Harvard undergraduate named Wiley tries to bring his stubbornly unresponsive girlfriend to orgasm: "The whitish bubbling, the splash of her discontinuous physical response: those waves, ah, that wake rose, curled outward...
Brodkey's central subject is the suffering child. The anguish chiefly arises from the loss, real or imagined, of parents and their protection (Largely an Oral History of My Mother; His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft). Brodkey's family histories tend to stretch out as interminable catalogs of emotion, pain and bereavement alternating with epiphanic flashes of elation: "In my memories of this time of my life, it seems to be summer all the time, even when the ground is white: I suppose it seems like summer because I was never cold." Moments like this almost redeem...