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A short (5-ft. 6-in.), wiry figure, Singleton dresses and talks like any casual, bright 24-year-old. He peppers his conversation with an abrupt, exclamatory laugh and punctuates almost every sentence with the rhetorical question "You know what I'm saying?" In meetings he is usually the youngest...
Into this rhetorical arena comes Susan Faludi, 32, a soft-spoken, sharp- penned, Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter for the Wall Street Journal who spent four years writing Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, published by Crown in October. In 552 crowded pages, Faludi constructs a thesis out of alarming though...
The "family values" agenda was the rhetorical basis on which Reagan and Bush and scores of other Republicans swept into office, thanks to the votes of millions of women as well as men. Feminism, meanwhile, lost many of its government sponsors. Support for the Equal Rights Amendment reached 60% in...
The next Bush-Buchanan showdown is set for March 3 in Georgia, where House minority whip Newt Gingrich believes the challenger may strip as much as 30% from the incumbent's vote. Though it hardly seems possible, Buchanan has escalated his rhetorical blasts to new heights of populist rage. Late...
Looks like we have finally seen the last of the new Nixons. Anyone who remembers his campaign and White House oratory will recognize the old Nixon's rhetorical devices from the first page of his new book, the ninth he has written. Once again we encounter the continual setting up...