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...speaks in tones as courtly as those of the English Baroque composer whose anthems he had clamped to his ears. At 75, wire-thin, white-haired and dressed in his working uniform of gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...
...Colin Powell. The former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has been writing a book, making carefully chosen speaking engagements and keeping his profile low. Top G.O.P. operatives fantasize out loud about a Powell run, knowing the former general would steal votes from Clinton's thin base of minorities, women and trade unionists. "If Powell wanted the nomination," said a G.O.P. strategist, "he probably could get it." No one is saying that about Dan Quayle...
...theme of the record "is kind of sin and redemption," says Cash. On the CD's first track, Delia's Gone, Cash sings about the thin line between love and hate: "Delia, oh Delia/ Delia all my life/ If I hadn't shot poor Delia/ I'd have had her for my wife." Later he sings of salvation in the gospel- inflected Down There by the Train, describing a heavenly train for wrongdoers seeking righteousness: "There's no eye for an eye/ There's no tooth for a tooth/ I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth." Cash's voice...
...miles away and shrouded in another kind of cultural space. But when the sources of advanced style are meager, as they were in Australia in the '40s, beautiful deformities can arise -- if there's enough naked psychic pressure behind them to compensate, at least in part, for a thin diet of other...
...They stick with one another through thin and thin. Father Homer, mother Marge, 10-year-old Bart, eight-year-old Lisa and baby Maggie seem to be a typical sitcom family -- the Honeymooners with kids, the Flintstones in suburbia -- with typically outlandish dilemmas to face and resolve each week. But there the similarity ends. Since it sprang in 1990 from cartoon spots on The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons has proved uniquely dense and witty. And thanks to top writers, directors and actors in the care of creator Matt Groening and comedy veteran Jim Brooks, it has stayed that...