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He is as acutely aware of childhood traumas as of childhood dreams of conquest. His memories are shot through with a ceaseless struggle to prove himself worthy, with a sense of rejection as a Yankee in the South and a Southerner in the North, and with the agonizing depressions and...
It is perhaps unnecessary to add that women will cheer and men will weep (and vice versa) when Zack passes all the tests the Navy and the opposite sex can devise and emerges as a man worthy of having a few million bucks' worth of F-111 in his...
Both Barbarosa and The Challenge trace the search for a spiritual father who will teach the male lessons of energy and discipline. The films mean to display these virtues as well and get a head start toward that goal by casting, as the mentors, Willie Nelson and, in The Challenge...
Both Julia and the scriptwriter are from Bolivia, an instant Peruvian joke. Like Charley's Aunt ("I'm from Brazil, where the nuts come from"), rambunctious Julia is not as advertised. She is the former sister-in-law of Mario's uncle and so no blood relative...
This book is unusual--not because it denounces Ronald Reagan and his supporters--but because it argues that neoconservatism directly opposes the essence of Judaism: mercy. Although Shorris does not even approach the philosophical freshness or subtlety of Martin Buber, nor the charm of Scholem Aleichem, his is an assessment...