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The book, Said's 17 th , is a wrenching, intimate account of growing up in Cairo's wealthy Levantine expatriate community, of summering in the dreary Lebanese resort town of Dhour el Shweir, and of visiting the family home in Jerusalem, sometimes for as long as several months.
But nor do I think some wrenching social and economic difficulties in a still-nascent constitutional democracy are comparable to forced starvations, reigns of terror, and the Gulag.
The WSJ says it's very unlikely Starr will bring criminal charges against President Clinton while he's in office, but that he will probably dump the matter into Congress' lap as a potential impeachment case, thus plunging the country into a "wrenching political dilemma" given the president's surging popularity.
The Post , however, reserved its main praise for Protestant leader Trimble, who, it said, "in wrenching concessions from the intransigent unionists of Northern Ireland, and carrying them through the peace process despite mounting unionist militancy and suspicions of a sell-out to Irish republicanism, pulled off a miracle of biblical proportions."
They say wrenching portrayals by Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley set "a new standard for crackerjack Broadway teamwork" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Others call the score, by Dreamgirls writer Henry Krieger, un-catchy and uneven.