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...sense Saddam granted Clinton a reprieve, and just in time. The U.S. faced growing pressure in its efforts to keep Saddam in his cage. American and British officials have long argued that there could be no easing of the sanctions imposed after the Gulf War unless Saddam abided by all U.N. resolutions. That would mean at minimum allowing an intrusive monitoring system to ensure that he built no more weapons of mass destruction and recognizing Kuwait's sovereignty and borders. Administration officials also called on Baghdad to halt its attacks on the Kurds in the north and Shi'ites...
...Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia gave Rorem entry into the company of the other wunderkinder and their mentors who, from the 1940s on, would do much to define what serious American music was all about: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, John Cage. Rorem's feelings of admiration, doubt, jealousy and gratefulness for these figures inspire the sharpest sketches in a book crammed with sharp sketches. On two composers who straddled the concert stage and Broadway: "Lenny Bernstein would never have been quite what he was without the firm example of Marc Blitzstein...
...with machetes, sticks and pistols. One man was fatally shot in the head at point-blank range. No U.S. soldiers were reported at the demonstration site, near a pro-junta army headquarters, from which attaches had run terror campaigns under the military regime. Witnesses said Haitian troops seized a cage filled with doves and took it back to the militia headquarters, where a soldier bit the head off one of the birds. Nearby about 2,000 Haitians looted a warehouse belonging to Port-au-Prince police...
...Nicholas Cage plays the good cop and sincerely sweet man, Charlie Lang, who leaves a lottery ticket as a tip to the waitress Yvonne Biasi, played by, you guessed, it, Bridget Fonda. You've probably seen the many trailers on T.V. on in the theaters so you know what happens next...
Charlie Lang is not a stretch for Nicholas Case. Lang is the distillation of many of Cage's former character roles, most notably "Raising Arizona" and "Red Rock West." Here Cage is the pure from of goodness, sincerity and generosity, attributes which were present, but hidden under the tough-guy persons of his other roles...