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What should the U.S. do? There is an instinctive longing for the bravado of 1904, when President Theodore Roosevelt was faced with the kidnaping of an American, Ion Perdicaris, by a Moroccan bandit named Ahmed Raisuli. Legend has it that Roosevelt pronounced a famous ultimatum: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." (It is less well remembered that Perdicaris was freed only after the Moroccan government paid ransom.) But a poll conducted last Thursday for TIME/ CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman indicates substantial public recognition that a big stick may not be the answer to an explosive and delicate situation. Among those...
...some extent, however, action belies bravado. Consumer spending, which typically accounts for two-thirds of economic activity and provided most of the oomph for the expansion, is starting to falter. Auto sales have stalled dramatically, contributing to a drop in total retail sales of 0.4% last month and 0.1% in May, the first back-to-back monthly declines since September and October of 1986. Industry is showing the same trend. U.S. factories operated at 83.5% of capacity in June, down from a high of 84.3% in January, a strong indicator that the economy has passed the peak in its current...
Strange, though, are the ways of fate and fame. The movie shows Lewis' bravado being directed at his cousin, revivalist Jimmy Swaggart, who is portrayed at more or less regular intervals denouncing rock 'n' roll as the "devil's music" and praying for the redemption of Jerry Lee's blighted soul. But the real-life Swaggart has since been brought low by the revelation of particularly tacky sexual practices. Lewis' music, manner and morality now seem almost innocent in comparison with what has followed him up the charts and into the hearts of adolescents during the past three decades. Even...
...short term, the L.D.P. will be preoccupied with designating a new Prime Minister. Takeshita promised to resign when the Diet enacted a 1989 budget, now one month overdue. In a departing act of bravado, Takeshita defied the Diet's tradition of consensus to push the budget through the lower house without the participation of the opposition parties. They had refused to take part until former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in office when the most flagrant abuses occurred, testified about his role. The budget will probably become law in 30 days, and Takeshita will step down...
...drama comes from Norman. His intensity never wavers as he portrays Lee's elaborately constructed facade of scummy, violent toughness. Lee is a hardened pioneer--one never doubts his stories of adventure in the American desert, the "true" West of this play's title. Yet behind his belching, swaggering bravado, Norman allows Lee's well-concealed dream of respectability and acceptance to leak through his psychological defenses...