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...talking about economic redevelopment on a blacktop swath of the Meadowlands sports complex, which was built on a reclaimed swamp. His California ads are moody and emotive: Kennedyesque, he walks along a beach, skipping rocks into the ocean; on the sound track the thumping of a heart-a wordplay on his name-leads into his anthem that "new vision, new ideas, are the heartbeat of this country's future...
That kind of finesse from a man not given to small talk or wordplay was seen by some of his aides as symbolic of Shamir's growing self-confidence since stepping out from Begin's shadow and into Israel's most demanding office just eight weeks ago. "He behaved like a real Prime Minister," said a top Israeli general who had observed Shamir throughout the Washington negotiations. "He was to the point, all businesslike, and ready to listen. He surprised me." That, in fact, was one of Shamir's aims in visiting Washington. Explained...
Inoue's forest of comedy, fantasy, biography and satire remains untranslated in the West, largely because of his incessant wordplay. But the writer whom Japan's critics have called the "magician of language" plans five novels that will convey universal meanings and ideas. Says he: "I would like to make my ways of expression so transparent that anyone in the world can understand what I'm saying...
...columns on language in the Sunday Times Magazine and more than 100 other newspapers evoke more mail, much of it combative, than his weekday political "Essay." Says Safire: "When people notice I have made an error, their eyes light up." Enamored of puns, literary allusions, grand metaphors and other wordplay, Safire at his giddiest can let his love of sound undermine his efforts to make sense. An example: "Thus one who lobbies expertly for the rights of female derelicts might be called a shopping-bag-lady knifethrower." He is usually most effective when simplest, writing blunt, mock-macho prose. Recounting...
...crash once), weightlessness and enforced camaraderie; dogs become a symbol of nature in harmonious, trusting alliance with humanity; the telephone is used both as an instrument of impersonal communication and the conveyor of whispered intimacies. Although there is no story line, Anderson strings her ideas together with deft, homey wordplay in a series of vignettes whose precise meaning may be ambiguous but whose effect is not. "The genius of American English is inflection," she explains. "I place phrases in different spots so they can resonate differently and leave lots of room for people to make connections...