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It's hard to write a novel about a great man, that larger-than-life figure who bestrides the story and manipulates action. The certitude of Dickens or Tolstoy, who peopled their worlds like gods, is denied to 20th century writers who must cope with ironies and layers of deconstruction...
And yet, during the "tunnel" riots of two weeks ago, there were incidents of murder and sacrilege. One occurred in Nablus, an Arab town under P.L.O. control. There is in Nablus a Jewish religious site, Joseph's Tomb. Under the P.L.O.-Israeli peace accords, it remained a tiny enclave peopled...
Bob and Elizabeth Dole save Sunday mornings for reflection, reviewing one week and surveying the next. The weekend before last, over brunch at their Watergate apartment with Bob's daughter Robin, the Doles had plenty to sort through. The night before, comedian Al Franken had acidly observed that the only...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Mike Synar, Oklahoma Democrat and 16-year veteran of Congress, died today at home of a brain tumor. He was just 45 years old. A feisty liberal who tirelessly battled the gun and tobacco lobbies, he nonetheless represented a district peopled mostly by conservative Democrats who favor gun...
The congenital danger of such plays, of course, is a tendency to be peopled by talking heads rather than full-bodied characters, and Racing Demon sometimes does feel overly abstracted. But Brian Murray does a fine job of linking head to body: he plays, movingly, a homosexual priest who flees...