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Perhaps you've seen the new television commercials touting the fact that James Bond, in the new movie "Golden Eye," drives a BMW. Yes, that such a pillar of British sensibilities drives a German car is meant to strike us as positively revolutionary...
...then there's the post that cracked. At the end of the "street," which is bordered by the open seating area and private booths, stands a reinforced pillar...
...fair trial, and one has to assume that is what he received. But it makes me sick to see how quickly ''not guilty of murder'' is translated into ''innocent.'' A man who threatens to kill his wife is very likely to do just that. He is neither a pillar of the community nor the victim of a witch-hunt. He is without a doubt a criminally abusive man, and that fact must not be ignored. MOLLY MINER, Evanston, Illinois Via E-mail...
...handsome wunderkind was taken up by the literary powers in New York City, and his career seemed set to soar. But Vidal tells us that his third novel, The City and the Pillar, published in the unenlightened '40s and featuring an overtly homosexual love story, alienated the literary establishment and set him apart as a refugee in his own land. Later we follow him into the bright worlds of television and Hollywood, until he eventually takes refuge in the Old World of Ravello, in Italy, where he has lived for the past 30 years...
...Government 1091 eschewed intellectual debate in favor of base confrontation. In so doing, they undermined a class dedicated precisely to the dissection of such multicultural and pansexual hankering as their own. Further, they circumvented the laws of a university which does much to further their agenda as a pillar of liberalism in contemporary America...