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In previous campaigns, both were known as men who valued substance over style. Now, Conventional wisdom says their rhetorical deviousness will color voter turn-out on election day.
In defense of the University rose President Neil L. Rudenstine, who, in a deft maneuver, vacillated between dodging responsibility and pleading ignorance. Meanwhile, the rest of the Faculty resorted to that timeless rhetorical technique, "gasping and hissing"--a method of retort that gained its popularity during meetings of the Smurf...
As if some black folks needed another reason to conclude that when it comes to race, some white folks still just don't get it. After a tape of the Pfeiffer pilot got out, it set off yet another overheated racial contretemps in Los Angeles. Like actors following the script...
Almost assuredly a major player in late-year awards tallies, Steven Spielberg's war drama was more coherent and less lazily rhetorical than 1997's Amistad. In fact, it seems churlish to take anything away from a film with such a unanimously powerful opening, with two pitch-perfect supporting turns...
From this cluttered bastion over the past two decades, Heston has fought crusades on issues ranging from gun owners' rights and right-to-work laws (he's for them) to nuclear freezes and raunchy rap music (he's against them). He has flung rhetorical grenades at Bill Clinton and, with...