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...Black Caucus, was so deeply disturbed by the TV series that he had to stop watching after two episodes. Said he: "I couldn't watch the rest. I was too angry. If I had met any of my white friends, I would have lashed out at them from a vortex of primeval anger." And yet, Mitchell went on, he realized that the story "is as much a part of our legacy as Andrew Young being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by Thurgood Marshall at the White House...
...wars and chaos in the au thor's own Colombia. Garcia Márquez writes with what could be called a stream-of-consciousness technique, but the result is much more like a whirl pool. Events, characters and dialogue are all sucked down into a powerful nar rative vortex only to resurface later. In The Autumn of the Patriarch, the debris of despotism phosphoresces with decay, and the vultures in charge of that final palace cleanup are history's ageless witnesses...
Carlos steadily gains self-confidence. In Franco's waning days, the royal heir designate led a listless life sailing off Mallorca, skiing in Granada, toying with his Nikons and snipping ceremonial ribbons. Today he is at the center of the political vortex and shows a clear and subtle understanding of the conflicting currents. The stream of ministerial cars passing through the gates of Zarzuela Palace, his residence northwest of Madrid, indicates that the King has clout where it counts. Significantly, Juan Carlos is using that clout to receive not only ministers but opposition leaders like Ruiz-Gimenez...
...POSITION in the Watergate vortex is essentialy a metaphor for the position of the American public. Both take the same attitude: they don't believe that it has happened; they can't conceive of the president having been involved; and fimally, they both wish it would go away. A Woman's View clearly illuminates the intense paranoia, secrecy, and save-your-own-skin aspect of the Watergate White House. Mo says that no two men within the top positions in the administration could depend on or confide in one another. From the moment Nixon realized that Watergate was going...
...swept off my feet by this vortex," he said. "My whole practice is going out the win dow, and the case is beyond my control...