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Although Clinton seemed completely unprepared for the first rhetorical challenge from the emboldened G.O.P., for Gingrich to start off with the school-prayer amendment made political sense. It probably seemed like the perfect thank-you gift to the Christian right for its substantial role in the Republican triumph. Even though leaders of the Christian right say it's not high on their legislative wish list, polls show strong support for some kind of classroom prayer, making it less contentious than an antiabortion measure they might prefer. Best of all, Gingrich could offer the amendment without fully expecting it to come...
...center of things. On Friday evening Gingrich rushed from his first postelection meeting with Representative Richard Gephardt -- the Missouri Democrat and outgoing majority leader -- into his own tiny, crowded office just off the House floor. Prominent just inside the heavy doors were a dozen red roses with a thank-you card signed by the National Right to Life Committee, the nation's most powerful opponent of abortion rights. All around were signs of change, but a small one was particularly telling. As his secretary leafed through the phone messages left for the Speaker in Waiting, she came across this...
...money," writes Adler, who later interviewed the jurors. Unable to sift the complex evidence, they fell back on sheer sympathy for Imelda, who courted it with gusto. Dressed in black, clutching her rosaries, she could be seen at the defense table wiping back tears. Acquitted, Imelda threw a thank-you party for the jurors with roast pig and a belly dancer. She sang Feelings...
...time great bubble blowers. Never did those bubbles burst, either. Scheme after scheme was launched and christened. My ideas, no matter how fatuous, were buoyed up by her goodwill. It was, and is, one of my ambitions to write something that would last -- forever, no less -- as a thank-you letter to the U.S., where I have been so well treated. Months passed in this way, until the idea began to collapse under its own weight. She did not scold. But, she said, in her best down-feathered voice, "Don't let's talk anymore about that book...
...simplicity of the setting focuses the attention instead on the main attraction of Love Letters, A.R. Gurney's script. With a natural flow, the dialogue manages of balance emotional intensity with a wry touch of humor. Hidden behind the polished veneer of perfunctory thank-you notes, the characters' lines express much more than their surface meaning...