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...entry into the talks. A possible Kissinger visit to Jordan was scrapped when word was passed from Amman that the King would be unavailable to meet with him. Nor was the ex-Secretary's journey hailed by the other important party that has remained outside the Camp David framework, the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians, who have been taking direction from the Palestine Liberation Organization. In Cairo, Kissinger suggested that the P.L.O. might be offered a place at the bargaining table "at a later stage, when some progress has been made." But P.L.O. leaders have long believed that Kissinger...
...sense could Nevelson be called an intellectual artist. To talk to her for a while is to enter a blurred framework in which precise dates, influences, exact encounters and the normal to-and-fro of an artist's life are blended into a sometimes irritating sense of self-engendered myth. Nevelson is, in fact, the Martha Graham of sculpture, and both her work and her incessant recasting of her life have the same eventual purpose: the exorcism of solitude by fiction...
THIS PLOT PROVIDES the framework for the usual action--Popeye slugging his way through run-ins with Bluto and other assorted ruffians. The fight scenes underscore the limitations of the premise. Clever camera and stunt work not-withstanding, human beings simply cannot contort themselves the way cartoon figures can. Robin Williams can only cock his wrist a couple of times for the famous twister punch. As a result, the slapstick gains in immediacy but loses the necessary hyperbole...
That is the most succinct and accurate explanation of what is described as Cabinet Government: a President and a Secretary working together with no in-betweens. Ickes knew Roosevelt's heart and mind and devised brilliant policy innovations within that framework. The Secretary battled adversaries, wooed friends, took sweeping bows for success, the kicks in the pants for mistakes, argued vehemently at times with Roosevelt but in the end loved the President and his cause beyond himself. Roosevelt knew it and honored him. Ickes took few orders from underlings...
...historical characters in fictional situations and fictional characters who resemble historical figures requires a more imaginative framework than the slightly chilled memoirs of a wizened literary celebrity. Burgess seems to anticipate such criticism by having Toomey call his recollections "confabulations the replacement of the gaps left by a disordered memory with imaginary remembered experiences believed to be true...