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...wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August in the Iowa straw poll--a phony event that became news only when Dole didn't win. In addition, to boost his standing in Iowa and Florida, last week Dole finally deployed one of his most effective weapons, his relentless wife Liddy, sending her out on a nonstop, three-week blitz around the country...
Successful religious novels draw on the same thing that Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy thrive on: relentless plotting, no matter how far-fetched. The king of the genre is Frank Peretti, author of four best sellers. His latest, The Oath (Word; 550 pages; $23.99), which has sold 500,000 copies, is a backwoods potboiler that shoots off volleys of suspense. Dismembered bodies start turning up in a remote valley in the Pacific Northwest (the Northwest is a favorite Evangelical site). The local law blames the killings on a deranged bear, but that's too easy. Better to look...
...made up my mind if I do anything, it has to be something I can do in my spare time," he said, adding that the demands on Harvard professors to participate in the governance of the University are "just relentless...
...question of whether that goodness can survive, whether it can extend its grace to the tormented Zimans and at the same time triumph over the fateful malignity of the relentless cop, remains the central question, for Lelouch as for Hugo. But this is not, finally, a movie that encourages such abstract considerations. It is all shameless pace and jostle, a compendium of evil (war, suicide, poverty, injustice, exploitation) that yet asks us to believe that common decency (and a strong back) can eventually triumph over it. Maybe so, maybe not. But how pretty it is to believe...
...spirited resistance of the cinematography and acting crumbles in the face of the relentless attacks of the script, like free spirits suffocating in a puritanical society...