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Most of the worries of the woman in this poem stem from her attempts to learn a second language, a tongue of stale, curtained windows. She is imprisoned not by the street but by her aversion to her sole option--going down to the street and speaking the street language of the men she will find there. The lines she repeats--"thinks of going down into the street"--are the antithesis of her images of Alaska, the source of "williwas wind," volcanoes, spruces, birds, and the Bering...
Hanna Schygulla as his lover is as enigmatic as ever, replacing her, more familiar vamping with a staunch mother figure. An evidently barren woman who has inexplicably taken Lebanon as her own country, her sole desire is to adopt a native child. Yet she evokes no more sympathy exudes no more warmth than Laschen. In fact, while Laschen becomes increasingly anesthetized by the violence she remains consistently numb...
...power in his government. Last week, in a predawn coup, Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, 52, army chief of staff, ousted Sattar and in stalled himself as strongman. "I have no political ambition," the general asserted in a radio and television broadcast announcing the takeover. "My whole and sole aim is to re-establish democracy...
...There's no arrogance quite like that of a competitor who thinks big money makes him the sole proprietor of creativity, the father of technology and owner of the rainbow." May the crispiest crust...
...cases could take satisfaction from the jury's negligence verdict. It did not explicitly find that Rely caused toxic shock. But Microbiologist Philip Tierno of New York University Medical Center clearly bolstered the plaintiffs case with his testimony that the cellulose chips in Rely "can provide the sole nutrient" to encourage the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium sometimes present in the vagina. The bacteria, in turn, generate poisonous waste products, which are circulated by the blood...