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A story that had been lurking in the back pages for weeks--the saga of on-the-lam Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan--explodes today into everybody's lead with Ocalan suddenly in Turkish custody following his dramatic capture by Turkish operatives in Kenya, and Kurds across Europe rising up in often violent protest.
The two meet in cyberspace; the rest is thumb twiddling until they "solve their problems, fall into each other's arms and get down to the old rumpy-pumpy" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Fun, say the critics, as long as you can believe that "lurking in the next AOL chat room might be a Tom Hanks or a Meg Ryan and not some drooling 300-pound loser with bad skin" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). (Read Edelstein's review, in which he says Ephron's movies "go down easy, like Muzak," .)
Dublin's Irish Independent, reporting optimism in Dublin as well as London, said in an editorial that "the prize is within the negotiators' grasp": "If they fail to seize it, they will surrender to the sinister men lurking in the wings.
He refused to talk about technique, angrily denied that he was a colorist, and challenged his viewers to find the tragedy lurking in the canvases (Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy was his favorite book).
That may not seem an auspicious beginning, but we must not despair, for an authority—if one is needed—must be lurking somewhere: either we have not found it or we must recognize the Editor's right to Humpty-Dumpty meanings into existence at a whim.
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