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...fight manager Cus D'Amato. Tyson can't be convicted for the role he plays or the work he chooses. And in the half of his life devoted to boxing, he has attracted mentors, sportswriters and, yes, Givens with evidence of softness, hints of heart: the odd fluty pitch of his voice, the stabs at elaborate rhetoric, even his love for pigeons -- a fancy he shared with another damaged boxing hero, the Marlon Brando coulda-been contender in On the Waterfront. It was Tyson's mention of the pigeons that briefly beguiled Miss Rhode Island, she testified last week...
...former California Governor has three distinctions. He is the only one who has sought the nomination before. He bases his pitch exclusively on a crusade to purify the political process. And according to a poll published last week by the University of New Hampshire's Survey Center, only Brown has an overall negative rating among the state's voters. His constant attacks on his rivals as prisoners of the old politics make him seem like a single-issue Ishmael. Though his relatively high name recognition allows him to score well in national polls, that edge is absent in New Hampshire...
Unconfirmable reports of roundups and executions, circulated by Iraqi opposition sources intent on destabilizing the regime, have reached such a pitch that it is tempting to conclude that Saddam Hussein is pressing the panic button. On the other hand, Hammadi resurfaced in the inner circle after his rumored death. As for Saddam, he continues his belligerent hate campaign. Last week he marked Army Day with a cheer for the Scud missiles that had "hit the cursed Israel" during last year...
Still, nobody can match Le Pen in playing on the resentment of petits blancs (poor whites) toward the immigrants. Now he is appealing to other kinds of discontent. He is making a strong pitch to farmers worried that European integration will strip away their accustomed subsidies, and is even putting out feelers to ecological and animal-rights activists, who also have been gaining among voters bored with the mainstream parties. It is just conceivable that if the vote in the 1993 legislative elections splinters widely, a coalition strong enough to form a government could be put together only by including...
Loquacious is too impoverished a word to describe Paglia's speaking style. She talks at triple speed, rarely even using contractions, hurtling along in a grating pitch that comes perilously close to a cackle. Her aural punctuation is hilarious. A recent SRO lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was typical. Yuh? Yuh? O.K.? O.K.? peppered her speech, and the audience answered right back...