Word: penitente
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No one at the White House would dare say so last week, but the tragedy gave the President something to talk about larger than his political problems. Clinton had been trying to recast his presidency after the new Republican Congress wrapped up its much heralded first 100 days. But he...
It has however been interesting to look at Kennedy's carefully reconstituted image during the past few years, from that of an aging Lothario to that of a penitent, committed family man (and certainly the statute of limitations on caddish behavior must have expired by now.)
The most impressive new British play, Hare's Murmuring Judges, starts as a panoramic survey of a criminal-justice system shamefully subverted by careerism and bureaucracy. Gradually the story focuses on a hapless petty burglar, imprisoned almost five years for a first offense. Hare, a left- winger, has a thumb...
Thatcher's anti-German feelings seemed further confirmed by last week's leak of a memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually...
Commercial calculation is crucial for pop survival and establishing a persona. Madonna sheds images like snakeskins: the bad-girl boytoy; the sassy feminist; the confused pseudo penitent; the ambisexual flirt; the wistful sex bomb, Marilyn Monroe reborn from a peroxide bottle with a genie inside, snuggling up to Dick Tracy...