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...confessionals repel the very sympathy that their devotees are aiming for. The "movement" is most successful when it doesn't bill itself as such, but instead tries only to bring into focus the new and sometimes byzantine nuances of male-female relations. Any work that hopes to articulate the plight of the nineties man must, if only for the sake of critical viability, avoid at all cost a wounded or plaintive tone. Clearly, while "Men's Fiction" may have a place in the increasingly political world of writing and criticism, it will have to fight...
...televised speech he delivered shortly before he was killed in cold blood in the summer of 1963, Medgar Evers boldly declared that "history has reached a turning point, here and over the world." His words, originally intended as commentary on the plight of the civil rights movement, might serve as a profound epitaph for two crucial events of last week--the conviction of Evers' murderer Byron de la Beckwith by a Mississippi jury and the decision by the Clinton administration to normalize relations with Vietnam...
Amid the controversy, sympathetic portraits of Harding emerged. CBS's 60 Minutes broadcast eight-year-old video footage that showed her difficulties with her mother LaVona. But within the skating world, Harding's plight has not been greeted with universal sympathy -- and she has largely herself to blame. For years, she has played a Jekyll-and-Hyde game that has earned her more detractors than fans. People who publicly say they believe Harding is now telling the truth add, sotto voce, that she has long had a reputation for lying...
Clinical fellows in ambulatory pediatrics tend to plight their troth to otolaryngologists with thriving law practices on the side. The fathers of these wunderkind tend to head retailing or philatelic concerns. Their children's accomplishments constitute proof that the American dream is alive and well. The mothers, almost always, are psychotherapists or social workers (Now we know where Betty Friedan's original target audience ended...
Puzzled passersby were treated to the sight of three dead animals outside the Science Center yesterday as the Environmental Action Committee and Green Corps attempted to draw attention to the plight of endangered species...