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...last year when he made Americans wince, a majority of them remain ready to credit his progress on things that matter to them, including the deficit and health care. "People think that the President is trying," says White House chief of staff Mack McLarty. "It's like a huge battleship on a river. We're beginning to turn it around...
...Merm's. Yet for the most part, Midler makes the role her own. She conveys much less anger than most predecessors, and rather more romance. Her relationship with manager-paramour Herbie (Peter Riegert) is convincingly sexy, which atones for the mediocrity of Riegert's singing. In contrast to the battleship that Daly made of the role, Midler is devastated, almost fragile, when her younger daughter June elopes and breaks up the family vaudeville...
Like Portsmouth, the Norfolk shipyard was not on the Pentagon's original list and did not at first take its late addition very seriously. The yard was founded in 1767 and built the first U.S. battleship, the Texas, and the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the Langley. The yard employs 10,000 workers and has seven dry docks that can handle any ship in the Navy...
Graham focused her speech on the importance of improving public school education in the U.S. Using the battleship as a metaphor, she bemoaned the lack of maneuverability and flexibility of public high schools in responding to the needs of their students...
...their actual political effect, if any. What really won a place in the Bolshevik propaganda effort was photography and the new art of photocollage, brilliantly deployed -- in combination with sharp, eye-rattling typographic forms -- in book jackets, handbills and movie posters. Anton Lavinsky's 1926 poster for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, which grabs the eye with the staring authority of those two black cannon muzzles framing the whispering, mutinous sailor, is a classic of the genre...