Word: tortuousness
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...Jack Nicholson in the 1974 classic China-town, is walking the streets of Los Angeles again, but not without haunts. As he tells himself repeatedly in the new film, The Two Jakes, the past is something every person must confront at one time or another. It is a tortuous process, Gittes realizes, which requires treading a very thin line. "I don't want to live in the past," he says, "I just don't want to lose...
...television special about Bensonhurst on that recurring theme. And next month a collection of his essays will be published in his first book, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (St. Martin's Press), raising him to center stage in America's tortuous debate over race relations...
...that freedom for the rest can be expected immediately. The fate of each prisoner is subject to tortuous maneuvering among Iran, Syria and one of the terrorist groups that hold the hostages. Their interlocking self-interests bred a culture of kidnaping in the 1980s; now the question is whether they can each serve themselves best by giving up their captives. Clearly none is in a position to deliver all the hostages independently...
Alas, that highlight only brightens the route to the best-seller list. The path to the 21st century is deeper and far more tortuous than a market niche. A new era involves, among other things, hazardous negotiations, forbearance, sacrifices and painstaking research. These have little importance in this megababble, largely dedicated to validating the irrational. It is fueled by the notion that if readers shout good news often enough and loud enough, the resulting hot air will cause the whole world to rise...
...tortuous nature of that language was hardly unplanned. It is not difficult to imagine the misguided logic by which charitable organizations that fund Arab groups will be defined as acting "for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...