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...province to India. Another was to enable the Bangladesh government to assume charge as soon as large chunks of territory were liberated by the army. Since New Delhi does not want to be accused of having exchanged West Pakistani colonialism for Indian colonialism, it is expected to lean over backward to let the Bangladesh government do things...
...losing dominates the impulse. That they are snapshots throws the emotion behind the subjects into a peculiarly desperate emphasis, which a more professional rendition might have mitigated in favor of a better whole. The effect is heartbreaking--the lighting, the blurring, the posing--one knows one is looking backward through a great deal of time onto a period about which our guilt and our sentimentality hang about equal...
...lost his whip job, too. Those experiences humbled him. That's on the private side. On the public side there is no doubt it has cost him votes." Mike Feldman, a former aide to John Kennedy, frequently plays tennis with Ted; he notices one small change: "Teddy bends over backward to be fair, is scrupulous about the calls, always giving the advantage to his opponent?and I haven't seen that in any other Kennedy...
...show opens, a fortress-like curtain wall leans dramatically backward to form a sharply raked stage, bodies clinging to it as to the sides of a sinking ship. When Pontius Pilate appears, it is through a doorway modeled after the head of Caesar. As it telescopes open, bearing a throbbing resemblance to an Excedrin ad, it reveals six sets of eyes. The high priests descend on a bone bridge that looks as if it had been left over from one of Alley Oop's dinosaurs. During Christ's prayers to God in Gethsemane, a universe box is lowered over...
...blind to the movement of history and not unsympathetic. "The backward races are kicking," he once wrote, "and more power to their boots." (But, Mr. Forster, the poor have no boots). He did not belong to history; his temperament was too ironic to believe in the future and too traditional to want to. He was forever looking backward, fondly brooding over his disintegrating times. Too fascinated with the corpse to get on with the funeral...