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Mahoney has an infallible ear for the spoken word and an eye for telling detail. Whoredom's vignettes are encased in prose so pellucid and evocative that readers may want to stop and reread passages just to savor their rhythms and imagery. Take a look back at Mahoney's reaction to Lillian Hellman's remark about "the little Irish girl." You could do a ton of reading before catching a sentence as fierce and fine as that...
...part from his desire to assuage middle-class voters upset with his breaking his promise to lower their taxes. Fair enough, but more middle-class families would receive help if their children joined the program after high school, as a confidential transition memorandum pointed out. The President ought to reread that memo and change course...
...uninspired, Rudenstine lost most of his audience's attention. Friends of mine--people who wanted to hear what he had to say--fell asleep, and others began conversations. Two people sitting in front of me started taking pictures of each other. The man sitting to my left read and reread and reread his little one-sheet program...
...most precious distraction, the source of the most pleasure and some pain, is the mail, typically weighing in at 400 tons. A letter from home is reread until the pages crumble. "I had just opened the letter from my wife when we had a Scud alert," says Sergeant Darrell Thompson, 37, of the XVIII Airborne. "I dropped my mail to run off to the bunker, but I put the photo of my little girl in my pocket, like a good-luck charm...
...likes raising Corriente cattle, a kind used in rodeos. He likes growing raspberries. He likes making mobiles (two of which hang from the ceiling of his office). He has read all the 50 or so novels of his favorite author, Louis L'Amour, and now he is starting to reread them. "What do I like about him? The hero always wins. The women are always pure. The horses are great. They are out in the great West, and you learn...