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...radio message that crackled over the air waves from the fighters inside was a request for the poems of Mouin Beseisso. "The partisans and fighters name Beseisso the poet of the revolution," came the message. "Let us hear his voice and his poems once more." Palestinian audiences listen with rapt attention to his strong, highly political verse, whose cadences reflect the long tradition of oral history and the loneliness of the desert. "Before the bullet there was the poem," says Beseisso, 50. "In the days of the tribes, it was not enough to have a leader. They had to have...
Nancy makes occasional separate appearances, but limits them to innocuous Q.-and-A. sessions. Says she: "Making a speech would scare me to death." When Reagan is speaking, she sits near by watching him with rapt attention, laughing at the little jokes she has heard scores of times. Why? "There is always something different in the audience or the setting, and I do enjoy hearing Ronnie talk...
Economics is an uncomplicated matter, Reagan assures his listeners. Just end deficit spending. "This is the single cause of inflation, and inflation is the cause of recession." (He revealed this insight four years ago in Kennet High School in Conway, N.H., before a rapt audience...
...People is mainly about the joys of talent and the satisfactions of professionalism. It is a collection of long profiles, originally published in The New Yorker, which reflect what the author calls "my abiding obsession with the skills that enable a man or woman to seize and hold the rapt attention of a multitude." His current choices: British Actor Ralph Richardson; Czech-born British Playwright Tom Stoppard; Johnny Carson, board chairman of the American talk show; Comedian and Movie Producer Mel Brooks; and Louise Brooks (no relation), film beauty and sex symbol of the 1920s...
...that he could go to jail for "100 years" if he confessed all his past crimes. Said he: "On the waterfront, no business is completely honest." Montella even explained how to persuade a reluctant bar owner to sign over his business. "You take a hair blower," he instructed the rapt court, "get it hot and put it on his neck until he signs. He'll sign...