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Maloul writes well, even when he overwhelms one with his vivid word pictures. Fortunately Phil's down to-earth narration rescues the reader and allows for more relaxed and absorptive reading. Maloul's style parallels the theme of the book, for as the sensitive Frank is bombarded with countless images, so too is the reader, until relieved by Phil's narration...
Mubarak may not find a sympathetic ear in Jerusalem either. Though he and Prime Minister Shimon Peres have exchanged notes about improving relations, Mubarak received a vivid example last week of the difficulties in dealing with an Israeli government of national unity that is nonetheless composed of ideological opposites. A spokesman for Foreign Minister Shamir, who was in New York City last week for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, said that Israel still opposed the Reagan peace plan. This brought a terse rejoinder from Jerusalem, where Peres' Cabinet Secretary said that the gnew government, which...
...addition to producing dozens of illustrations that have run inside the magazine, he has drawn five cover portraits, including his famous depiction of President Lyndon Johnson as a beset King Lear for TIME'S 1967 Man of the Year issue. Since 1980, Levine's pen has added vivid detail to TIME'S reports on congressional and gubernatorial races. Says he: "Caricature is not portrait painting; you cannot dig that deep. You bring to it your own philosophy-about politics, about life. Mine is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible...
...think of a time when I didn't know his name," Salieri remembers. And so begins almost three hours of brilliant film making -- a sequence of vivid scenes not only linked, but actually thickened, by the voice of an old man captivated by his own life...
...visit to Cuba in 1935, she chronicled the hopeless resistance to the new Batista dictatorship. The same year she was in Nazi Germany reporting on opposition to Hitler. In Spain in 1937, she witnessed the death throes of the Spanish Republic. Her biographer asks: "What could be a more vivid embodiment of a life lived according to principle...