Word: witnessed
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What an extraordinary article on Christopher Reeve and his battle to walk again after spinal-cord injury [MEDICINE, Aug. 26]. His courage, resolution and wit in the face of enormous physical challenges are truly inspiring. Roger Rosenblatt managed both to humanize and to exalt this man of steel. Many people will be cheering on his progress, both physical and legislative, in the years to come. While he can no longer move freely in the beautiful landscape near his home, Reeve will surely have many exhilarating journeys across the landscape of his mind. LAURA KELLY Pleasantville, New York Via E-mail...
...assimilation blues to a graceful homecoming. Jessica Hagedorn's new novel, The Gangster of Love, is a book about transition, movement, emigration, immigration and repatriation. Though the title could hardly be sillier or more ungainly--it sounds like an afterhours movie on Cinemax--the book itself is written with wit and style and ultimately achieves an elegant poignancy...
...begins, "For the record this is me talking. You know me, or think you do. The not quite omniscient author." This claim that Didion, the journalist and screenwriter, is writing as herself is followed by the news that she had considered giving herself an invented identity and name, to wit "Lilianne Owen," and telling the story under this disguise. That, she adds, didn't work: "As Lilianne Owen I could not have told you half of what I knew. I wanted to come at this straight...
...marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes a lot of Top 10 hits, is based on the early career of Carole King, who with her husband Gerry Goffin composed some of the best hits -->