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...Roof, with its layers of grandiloquent Southern mendacity, might serve as an emblem for the life of its creator. The playwright with the arresting name of Tennessee was born plain Thomas; Williams wreathed himself in beguiling inventions and evasions. Some of these were the by-product of a well-meaning gentility, as in his and his family's attempts to veil from the world the tragedy of his sister Rose, whose schizophrenia ended catastrophically in a lobotomy. Some were solitary acts of cool calculation, as when he lopped three years off his age to render himself eligible for a young...
...Karadzic to maintain the peace. "Milosevic can deliver the votes from the senior leaders, but the question is whether they can deliver all the troops," says Waller. "There are a lot of Bosnian Serb soldiers under a very loose command structure. There are freelancers and plenty of just plain armed thugs. And that's a worry to the Pentagon." The other worry, Waller reports, is that President Clinton's belief that one year of peacekeeping will solidify the peace is unrealistic. "The U.S. military doesn't think that the Bosnian Serbs will take on the NATO force directly," says Waller...
...rule that the College has about undergraduates not being allowed to make subjective decisions is just plain silly," he says. "How else do they expect us to gain this kind of experience...
Albert Belle's narrow loss to Boston's Mo Vaughn in the AL MVP voting gained the Indians outfielder no sympathy from the Cleveland Plain Dealer...
...than popular secular fiction. Other differences are hard to miss. Sex is not allowed below the eyes. (Fraught gazes carry great weight here, not only conveying love and affection but also standing in for dialogue in dicey situations.) There are no curses or smut, of course, but also no plain-spoken nouns and verbs denoting body parts or functions. Above all, no humor. No jokes, no kidding, no double meanings, no quirks and certainly no irony...