Word: epitaphs
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...Clay/Muhammad Ali were fixed by the Nation of Islam. Most convincing characterization: the drowning-in-slime, Mob-controlled world of big-time boxing circa 1960. Most vexing question: why anyone would commit a sentence like this one, typical in every way but its brevity: "What remained was epilogue and epitaph, chords like wind of death-song, of threnody." Uh, yeah...
...iced this humanistic cop drama unceremoniously last spring. Pembleton, Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and most of the series' diasporic crew investigate the shooting of Lieut. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now a mayoral candidate. The case is mostly pro forma, but its powerful yet tender epilogue writes Homicide's epitaph in emotionally satisfying black...
...just be that everyone wants to look good come Election Day. Clinton's writing his epitaph, while those in Congress are trying to write their meal tickets. "On a lot of these issues Republicans are facing a choice between special interest groups and their constituents," notes Branegan. "In an election year, they're usually going to side with the constituents." And of course, there's Al Gore. While the vice president has been forced to battle Bill Bradley on the left side of the party, where he's not comfortable, Clinton's introduced a handful of centrist proposals that Gore...
...proposed, seemed sometimes to wallow in, what appeared to be--often joyously, often grimly was--chaos. "Things fall apart," Yeats wrote in The Second Coming (in 1921, of course), "the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." It was the century's earliest epitaph, and is still perhaps its most powerful one. And Yeats had yet to conjure with the metaphors of modern science--the theory of relativity; the uncertainty principle; the looming figure of Freud, pseudo-scientific poet of our subjectivity--let alone with Fascism and Stalinism. Or, possibly most addling to a poet, the rise...
...Year?s gift in return. "I want to beg forgiveness for your dreams that never came true," he said in an emotional TV address. "And also I would like to beg forgiveness for having not justified your hopes." In other words, he wrote his own political epitaph...