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Irrespective of the outcome of independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation of Bill Clinton, we have come a long way from George Washington's succinct "I cannot tell a lie." C. DIXON LEE III Chapin...
This dashing metaphysics has its origins in a cheesy Byronism that acquired an improbable American pedigree with Emerson, who invented the expression "Do your thing," and after its many adventures with the Beats and the flower children of the '60s, came to succinct and opulent global fruition in the Nike commercial's "Just...
...alternately seductive and alienating: entrapped by circumstances, at once manipulator and manipulated, cruel and vulnerable, she makes us see her as both perpetrator and victim of her own deep-laid, cold-blooded plots. It was this problematic nature of Kate's character--or, as she phrases it with succinct deadpan cool, the "bitchy attributes"--that attracted the actress to the role, and perhaps helped her play it so well: "I didn't want to dilute her. One has to like the character one's playing...[and] take the point of view of that person...
...seemed to be a report so thorough and succinct that it left no room for questions," quipped Mark A. Kishlansky, professor of history and a member of the seven-person committee...
...issue. As a possible sign of what lies ahead, right-to-die campaign representatives say they are ready for a state-level fight. Asked whether Thursday's ruling would halt the activities of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the movement's best-known advocate, Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, was succinct: "Hell...