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It does not stand to reason, then, that the man who so succeeds while preoccupied with a moral scandal that could have cost him his seat at the Oval Office, would be paralyzed and disabled once the episode is over."
Either way, Brodkey embraces a self-absorption so extreme that it succeeds, paradoxically, in turning him into an Everyman:
Even if the Taliban succeeds in conquering the entire country, many areas will remain subject to guerrilla warfare.
Music is always telling stories (more or less), and I think that charismatic power is an element in one of those stories--the force we feel when a strong personality comes up against a demonic power and refuses to be cowed, and takes hair-raising risks, and succeeds in being, if only for a moment, the demon's equal.
The screenplay, too, "succeeds in preserving the mandarin lyricism of Woolf's language without slipping into the 'poetic' " (Daphne Merkin, The New Yorker ). Critics also applaud Vanessa Redgrave's turn as the wistful middle-age English socialite--the only actress, says New York 's David Denby, "large enough to hold together this plotless story."