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...SOW CHIC...
...loved freaks," Lily learns early in her life when a sow gives birth to a deformed offspring, and certainly everyone in the novel seems hermetically sealed as protection against the lack of love. But as in Luke's last name, "Hamsun--like handsome but back to front," the aesthetics of beauty are reversed as we are engaged by the characters. Our judgmental instincts cast to one side, we become open. We love these freaks...
...Atlanta Olympic Games, rarely call in with their names or seek a discernible result. Theirs may be acts of recruitment to win adherents to some fanatic's cause, or of a secret vengeance. Above all, the anonymous blasts from the blue are terror for terror's sake, intended to sow fear and make Americans tremble...
With Charlton Heston as its newly elected president [SPECIAL REPORT, July 6], the National Rifle Association hopes to appeal to mainstream America. The plan may backfire. Even an actor who has portrayed Moses can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. And though Heston's celebrity attracts media attention, the hateful sentiments conveyed by that golden voice will more likely guarantee a continuing decline in N.R.A. membership. Heston's outspoken and controversial reflections may win the applause of the right wing, but his inflammatory rhetoric is repugnant to most Americans, including real sportsmen. KATHLEEN GREGG Pearl...
Like it or not, we reap what we sow. We shouldn't be so shocked that children are turning to murder when we show them crime gets you a spot on a talk show or on the front page of the newspaper. For children who don't get attention from their overworked parents, that kind of 15 minutes can hold a sickly exciting thrill...