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...said nothing and scurried to get my smoking jacket before I could get the blunt instrument with which I usually struck him repeatedly on the side of the face...
Also dealing indirectly with war but far less blunt is Casablanca (Brattle Theater). Probably the most famous film of all time, Casablanca actually has an illogical and melodramatic plot, centering around a cynical American (Humphrey Bogart) who runs into an old flame (Ingrid Bergman) from his days in Paris. Under the influence of the striking young woman, Rick progresses from a selfish and apolitical bar-owner to a member of the French resistance against the Nazis. Though lacking the chemistry of Bogart and Bacall, Bogie and Bergman turn this rickety plot into a timeless film about sacrificing personal interest...
...nonsense." Verifying a no-nukes agreement, he insisted, "is not difficult, or very difficult; it is impossible." What Western leader, Perle asked, "would turn in his country's last remaining nuclear weapon on the strength of assurances -- mere words -- that the Soviets had done the same?" Asked about this blunt talk, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater took a diplomatic out. Perle, he said, "was not speaking for the President...
Warding off such a flare-up is also, paradoxically enough, the real goal behind the Administration's new initiative. The basic aim of the package is to strengthen America's bargaining hand with foreign competitors without giving Congress the opportunity to make use of such blunt instruments as sizable tariffs and other devices that would provoke retaliation and choke off trade wholesale...
...Administration's proposed measures are considerably more subtle than the kind of blunt protectionist strictures that have been championed with increasing vigor on Capitol Hill. In past years the White House was able to rely on the Republican-dominated Senate to help keep such sentiments under control. Last August those loyalist forces helped Reagan sustain, although narrowly, a presidential veto of a protectionist trade bill that had passed both the House and the Senate. That bill took a piecemeal approach, among other things setting a new system of country-by-country quotas on imports of textiles, shoes and copper from...