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...male security guard said this, the backdoor opened and two women came out. I came down from the steps to talk to the guards, hoping that the developments of the past few minutes might shame them into admitting the logic of my point of view...
...remain unaccounted for. Yet along with the pain there is pride. In the face of overwhelming pressure to shut our doors, we were able to resettle a first wave of more than 130,000 Vietnamese refugees. To have done anything less would in my opinion have only added moral shame to military humiliation." Today almost a million people born in Vietnam live in the U.S., making Vietnamese Americans the nation's fifth-largest immigrant group. Odds are they could help other visitors to the Ford Museum decide the debate over Fred and Hank Meijer's 18-step ladder...
...choice for a biography as the thuggish, illiterate, pre-Ali heavyweight champion might be, that's not nearly so strange as Tosches' technique: a gumbo of archival minutiae, back-alley hearsay, self-serving memory and rank speculation, all underscored with periodic outbursts of prose so embarrassingly purple it could shame a grape. Most provocative theory: that Liston's two fights with the young Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this...
...Judith and Holofernes," a mid-16th-century oil painting, shows Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes, the general whose army she has just defeated. A marble statue of Eve, created by Auguste Rodin in 1899, shows Eve with arms wrapped around her body and head bent down in shame. Contrast this image of a woman whose weakness instigated the fall of mankind with Mary's role as a redeemer through the birth of Christ...
...London suburb in the '70s. He long ago married an Englishwoman (Linda Bassett, in a splendidly grounded performance). But he is determined that his numerous progeny embrace tradition--especially when it comes to love. As East Is East opens, one of his sons is bolting an arranged marriage, bringing shame on George, who did not happen to notice that the boy was gay. George's attempt to marry two more of his kids to a pair of plug-ugly sisters comes to similar grief...