Word: ruthlessness
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...being upstaged by a succession of museum-quality jewels, porcelains, gilded carriages and statuary. Yes, in Memphis. The city has managed to put itself on the international circuit of blockbuster art shows. Its current offering: Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans, an opulent array of 274 possessions of the militarily ruthless yet artistically keen Turks who ruled a wedge of Europe and Asia for nearly six centuries. Gathered from the legendary Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul and other Ottoman collections, it is the largest show of Ottoman art ever to travel beyond Turkey's borders...
...however ruthless they may be on the surface about isolating themselves, uninfected men are widely burdened with what scholars of war call survivor guilt. These gay survivors see no moral reason, no legitimate distinction, that accounts for why they are alive and their friends and acquaintances are dead. Perhaps they simply preferred acts that proved to be less risky. Many did all the same things as their friends, just as frequently, and have somehow escaped -- so far. In the space of three years, Stephen Petty, an Atlanta theater director, lost his seven closest friends from their teen days in Dallas...
Harlan does an excellent job of portraying Truscott as a sort of lunatic master of ceremonies, the most thoroughly ruthless character in Orton's thoroughly ruthless world. Harlan's intense Truscott, at once menacing and ridiculous, is an appropriate blend of Sherlock Holmes, a Keystone Kop and Adolf Hitler. His quick-paced style works especially well in some of the play's wittiest exchanges, such as when members of the household find Truscott snooping through their belongings...
...politically dead for real: more than half of all voters still harbor "major doubts" about Bill Clinton's character and values. But for now, Clinton is The Man. His hapless primary competitors, the cowardice of others who shied from the fight, and his own dogged (and at times ruthless) determination conspired to have Clinton appear in the sweltering Arkansas sun last Thursday not only alive and well -- his party's candidate for President -- but the creator, almost literally, of another just like him. Nominate one, get one free...
...most now in their 60s and 70s, who worked closely with Perot in those early years. Some of their memories are fading, a number of key players are dead, and documents are virtually nonexistent. But the picture the retirees paint, while sometimes sketchy, shows Perot to have been more ruthless and petty in his early business dealings than is commonly known...