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No actor has ever brought the kind of belief to an evangelist that Duvall brings to Sonny, the tormented protagonist of The Apostle . And no one else could have created a character who stirs in the film audience such disparate responses: He's magnificent, he's dangerously crazy, he's magnificent and he's dangerously crazy.
"Most people are going to understand what a terribly, terribly tragic thing this is, what a horrible tormented person this is," lamented House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas.
As a young man, the brilliant and tormented Chambers, a Columbia University dropout, consorted with married women, was caught stealing dozens of books from the New York Public Library, and bummed his way to New Orleans (he would later identify with Beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg).
The NYT editorial page restates its position on l'affaire Lewinsky --Clinton's a jerk, but jerkiness isn't cause for removal from office--and backs Byrd, calling his proposal "a just way to bring this tormented case to a close."
William Cowper, an 18 th -century Protestant, may be best known for tormented, eloquent poems of religious fervor and despair.