Word: roughnesses
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...clear just how hollow that rhetoric was. Clinton the Brave Internationalist, if in fact he ever existed, has yielded to Clinton the Meek. Instead of taking a decisive turn toward creating a more just and fair international system, the Clinton administration has retreated into a corner, scarred by its rough treatment at the hands of Somali warlords, Serb soldiers and Haitian dockside gangs...
...Camus, more resonant than ever in its trembling solemnity, addresses itself to today's generation." The book has already run through seven printings and sold more than 130,000 copies. Some 20 foreign publishers are scrambling for translation rights. Which raises a question. Why this excitement over a rough draft of a partial novel by an author who died 34 years ago? Even his daughter seems startled by the response, acknowledging that "Camus would never have allowed this to be published...
...abound, and the demonic villain has supernatural powers of indeterminate nature. King can't resist throwing everything into the pot. A TV movie about the apocalypse can get away with quoting Eliot ("This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper") or Yeats ("What rough beast . . . slouches towards Bethlehem?"), but probably not both. Still, even when The Stand skirts tedium and pretentiousness, King is a rough beast that TV is lucky to have...
...supremacists unwilling to accept South Africa's changing destiny. "I think there will be more explosions and more actions if the government ignores the just claim of my people who demand some land." The fiery rhetoric inspired some of the 300 khaki-clad men and pistol-packing women to rough up and then oust a black American reporter attending the otherwise desultory rally. The motive behind all the violence: a whites-only homeland...
...been rough--we've really had to adjust," freshman Mike Hochanadel said. "But you can't write off the season just because of that. There are a lot of factors...