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...Lean lets such intricately wrought correspondences speak for themselves creates a danger that the partially attentive may again mistake him for what he is not: an empty pictorialist. Or, because his characters wear costumes and move against an authentic historical background, in classically composed scenes that do not obviously assert his personality or linger over his cleverness, some people may persist in seeing him as an old-fashioned moviemaker...
...opposition has groused that privatization is really privatization of assets rightly owned by the British people. They assert that the companies are being grossly undervalued. British Telecom, claims Alan Tuffin, general secretary of the Union of Communication Workers, is worth at least $12 billion, and selling it for $4.7 billion amounts to no less than "plundering the country's assets for private gain...
When a little-regarded entity suddenly begins to assert itself, one of three things will happen; either it will be stepped on and crushed quicker than the Czechoslovakians in '68, its presence among the elite will be protested or fought, or it will force the others to step aside and make room...
...Pentagon hardliners, in their zeal to prosecute the Soviets in public, will give away sensitive intelligence secrets about how much the U.S. knows and how it knows it. Some intelligence experts also interpret the data about Soviet activities as being more ambiguous than the hard-liners want to assert...
...even companies that actively promote the prestigious image that comes along with being named Harvard assert that they have as much right to the name as anyone else. Asked whether the University has ever approached his company about the use of the name, Harvard Maintenance's Doobin says "I don't see why they should it's just a name...