Word: ramblinge
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Interspersed throughout the novel are embarrassing attempts at Gallic philosophizing. This too often emerges as juvenile, stream-of-consciousness rambling. Henrietta, asked to justify her subject matter, responds.
Pressure is building on West to provide instant answers to every racial question, whether he has thought it through or not. For example, after a talk at a bookstore in Berkeley, California, he was confronted by Cherie Chichester-Glass, a veteran elementary school teacher. "I've read your book and...
In public Clinton is little better: his speeches continue to be leviathan, rambling affairs, the result of his tendency to veer from his text as much as he sticks to it. Oval Office meetings that should take a few minutes often go on for hours. A brief update session last...
Even more irresponsible and annoying is Jong's treatment of the "feminist," a term she almost always follows with "zealot" and applies without distinction to such diverse thinkers as Kate Millett, Germaine Greet and Andrea Dworkin. Jong says that she "respect[s] the courage of those feminists who have come...
Neil Simon's adaptation of his Pulitzer prizewinning play is, as one might expect, entirely respectful of the original (his boldest creative stroke is working his own name into the movie's title). Director Coolidge, who did a fine job with another eccentric family in Rambling Rose, moves quite gracefully...