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Unfortunately for Mondale, Reagan has succeeded in appropriating the "Peace through Strength" philosophy of defense from the Democratic Party as well. This legacy of Kennedy and Harry S Truman--nowhere more evident than in Kennedy's brave action in the Cuban Missile Crisis--has reappeared in Reagan's performances in Lebanon, Grenada, and Latin America. The diplomacy of concession and fear practiced by the Carter-Mondale Administration have receded into embarrassing memories...
After they divorce, Lucy is left with the daily responsibility of their young daughter. She looks for additional solace in psychotherapy, satisfaction in a series of perhaps deliberately ill-chosen affairs, fulfillment in anything creative that is handy. She acts in a local theater, doing brave combat with the role of Blanche DuBois and going to bed with the director. Leaving her, he carries the expensive leather suitcases - "the two prettiest things I ever saw" - Lucy gave him. "One of the small misfortunes of being a rich girl, and she'd known it all her life, was that people...
...also help shape it. Actor Paul Winfield (Sounder, White Dog) recalls growing up in Seattle in the 1940s. "All the blacks would sit in the movie theater balcony," he says. "Nigger heaven, they used to call it. Then one night we saw Stanley Kramer's Home of the Brave, the first picture we'd seen in which a black was not a Stepin Fetchit, and we resolved never to sit in the balcony again...
...jarring sight of an old athlete in a new uniform is common, though these images fade with such dispatch that the players are wise not to do the same. No one pictures Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas and Bob Cousy as a Boston Brave, a San Diego Charger and a Cincinnati Royal. Joe Namath's farewell passes wobbled not in the cause of the New York Jets but on behalf of the Los Angeles Rams. The sweeping fullback of the Green Bay Packers, Jim Taylor, was swept out with the New Orleans Saints...