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On a 1-to-10 scale of interesting lives, Hayden's probably rates about 8.5. Alas, he retells it in a cliche-strewn prose, participles adangle, that rarely rises above a 5. Still, readers who can endure the rhetorical posturing -- New York police, at one point, become the "expected forces...
But as the Israelis -- and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat -- should know by now, the intifadeh seems to be running itself. Arafat and other Arab leaders have lent considerable rhetorical support to the uprising, as well as an undetermined amount and of financial aid. Just last week Arafat and Syrian President...
"There are all kinds of intellectual and rhetorical strategies to introduce candor and intelligence and acuteness to a certain issue," says Kilson. "And then you hope it flies."
Jackson likes to end speeches with the story of his grandmother, who took odds and ends of cloth ("not hardly fit to wipe your shoes with, some of them") and stitched them into a quilt that kept him warm as a child. Then, referring to different minorities or excluded parts...
THE Adams production of Agnes of God is as emotional and moving an exploration of the place of religion and sainthood in modern society as one could wish to see. The difficult and often heart-wrenching questions of what constitutes true blessedness and of the appropriateness of such a state...