Word: veils
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...effectively in life as in fiction is likely to have trouble writing anything honest, especially memoirs. For the last 15 years of her life, Herbst vainly attempted to compose hers. But as Langer notes, to be straight with herself and others, the writer "would have had to remove the veil over some very sorrowful private and political moments." Langer has gingerly removed that veil. In the process, she has exposed more than she wanted to and more than Herbst's loving friends could ever have supposed. -By Patricia Blake
Sallow and sharp-featured, his unkempt hair a veil that flops down to hide the anguished confusion that haunts his eyes, Lynch's Cal is superficially a Belfast archetype. He is an unemployed adolescent from a broken home, trying to draw a curtain of rock music between himself and the terror-ridden streets, where glibly impassioned rhetoric is punctuated by the sound of explosions. Still, there is time on his hands and an emotional need to fill, so he drifts, convictionless, into the I.R.A.'s orbit, driving getaway cars for their "revolutionary" crimes. One of these forays results...
...suave Svengali of British and Hollywood films for a half-century; of a heart attack; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mason took a Cambridge architecture degree but was soon displaying his haunted good looks and claret baritone on the London stage and screen. In scores of romantic melodramas, from The Seventh Veil (1945) to The Deadly Affair (1967), he polished his image as the ruthless lover. Behind his sophisticated sadism there was often the suggestion of a dark past and a doomed future, shrouding such troubled protagonists as the Irish fugitive in Odd Man Out (1946), Rommel in The Desert...
...largest share of the French vote, nearly 43%, went to the center-right opposition, which was united under the leadership of Simone Veil, a Minister of Health under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Yet, despite the center-right's cries of victory, there was uncertainty over how to deal with the far-right National Front, which shrilly advocates old-fashioned morality and the return of France's 4.45 million immigrants to their countries of origin. The center-right fell well below the magic 50% that would have allowed it to boast that it represented...
...captain's cabin. It did nothing for our nerves to hear a BBC report that our ship had supposedly been hit. Later, an Iranian official paid us a visit, accompanied by three Islamic guards in military fatigues. I was dressed in black, but the Iranians insisted that a veil of some sort be found for me. There was nothing suitable on board. Finally, the captain rushed to his bathroom and returnedwith a white bath towel, which I had to struggle to keep over my head during the interview. When asked what Iran would do if Iraq destroyed Kharg Island...