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This is a good-news story. There aren't very many of them in politics these days, but the saga of Mary Robinson is the real thing. Irish public life is the stuff of tragedy or bad jokes. The country is haunted by the division between north and south, by...
So the passwords for Batman Returns are duality and isolation. "People-in- masks is pretty key," says DeVito of the movie's theme. These people are what they wear; Bruce's closet is filled with a dozen Batman costumes. All four main characters, Bruce and Selina, Penguin and Max, are...
From Goethe to Henry James, from Keats to Edgar Allan Poe, Canova haunted the imagination of writers, especially American ones. In fact the subject of Canova and America is large and includes such curiosities as a series of Canova sculptures of George Washington, naked as a jaybird, in the role...
Bush seems haunted by Jimmy Carter's experience with the 1980 Mariel boatlift, during which 124,815 Cubans washed up on Florida's shores -- and the Democratic President lost the election. "Mariel definitely left a shadow. Washington has been nervous all year about the Haitian influx," contends Father Richard Ryscavage...
"Our procedure has been always haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. It is an unreal dream." -- Judge Learned Hand, 1923