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...tries to put on makeup for a party; the nervous chipperness of George's lady friend (Karen Allen) when she meets the children for the first time; and their attempt to give her a fair chance without being disloyal to their mother; George self-consciously trying to be brave in front of them and not being able to keep the self-pity out of it; the puzzling way nostalgia has of flaring up as quickly as anger in the confrontation between former mates...
...must comment on the peculiar paradox his centenary witnesses: a nation eager to celebrate the memory of man whose legacy this same nation has only recently repudiated. Repudiated by electing a president and a Congress who have little compassion and much class consciousness; who would sully the memory of brave men who fought other, noble wars by engaging themselves in brutal repression abroad; who would reduce government from a friend of the people to a friend of the wealthy. Ronald Reagan stands for everything FDR stood against--he answers hard times with harder times; he sticks inflexibly to a single...
...produce Christlike figures such as Lech Walesa [Jan. 4] and his brave countrymen, then 1981 was not a bad year for humanity...
THESE DAYS even your average Joe on the streets knows there's something behind the facade of big ideas and brave leadership called U.S. Government. Average Joe understands that grand policies emerge from purely political settlements between rapacious special interests; that the experts who package these policies often don't have much faith in what the boss is preaching; and that the warrantees on schemes to save our society tend to run out shortly after election day. But what he may not realize is that an entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington...
...After the Jews they are the people I love most." He talks in a smoky whisper. "First, because the white men came and made them suffer, and they didn't deserve that. Second, I love how brave they are. I sympathize with them." Asked if his sympathies go toward all oppressed peoples, he says yes, "if they are innocent, and if they are not against us." Asked specifically about the Palestinians, he answers that he is still trying to make up his mind about which side is right. Yet he is troubled by the fighting...