Word: summonings
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...wary but are as overmastered by virility as any Victorian maiden ("With his touch, the will seemed to drain out of her"). Susan Minot, who made a notable debut with her 1986 novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands"). But the very unity of this collection produces a sameness. The reader begins to wonder, Doesn't Minot know anyone who is married, or older than thirtysomething? Doesn't she ever look beyond these modish urban lofts...
...choice opposition has marshaled its resources in a military counter- image of the raiders. They have posted troops at the most likely target clinics and kept others mobile in cars, with walkie-talkies to summon them as soon as the protest site becomes apparent from the route of the Operation Rescue caravan. An elaborate game of feints and reciprocal infiltration is going forward. Before this morning's caravan can even get started, the pro- choice side seems to have checkmated the game with a single move: both ends of the street off the parking lot have been blocked...
...hopes were pinned on making the pros. Today he is in uniform all right -- as a doorman at a downtown Washington hotel. A gentle Goliath with a cavernous bass voice and a ready smile, he wears a pith helmet and has a whistle dangling around his neck to summon cabs. "There's more to life than sports," he says. "It's a hard reality." That is a lesson that Scates, and thousands of other student athletes across the land, are given a lifetime to mull over...
...band's front man and most prominent idiosyncrat, writes and performs as if he and irony were locked in a perpetual thumb wrassling match. Onstage, he will show up in an organza suit designed by Adelle Lutz, which, turning transparent under the stage lights, is obviously meant to summon visions of the oversize whites in which Lutz's husband David Byrne cavorted through Stop Making Sense. Stipe (the name rhymes with the slender-billed bird that good ole boys send gullible slickers out to hunt) devotes himself to his eccentricities, currycombing them until they gleam like attributes of genius...
...commendable aims, the Bush budget proposal has failed to specify how it will reduce the deficit. He has not proposed any of the most accepted methods of cutting the budget deficit: increasing taxes or cutting Social Security or defense spending. It is not enough for Bush merely to summon the nation to a "mission of goodness and greatness...