Word: canalization
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...foreign policy is reactive, the business of handling events the U.S. didn't initiate and can't necessarily control. Presidents tend to be judged less by the good deeds they set in motion than by ! how well they respond to crises. Jimmy Carter's conscientious conclusion of the Panama Canal treaties was overshadowed by his fumbling over the Tehran hostages. George Bush's adroit management of the Gulf War largely explains his reputation for statesmanship...
...were tormented by the insect Chaucer knew as the midge; the English word mosquito, from the Spanish for "little fly," appeared in the 16th century, along with new and nastier New World species. In the 1880s the Frenchman Ferdinand de Lesseps, fresh from the triumph of building the Suez Canal, was utterly vanquished in his heroic effort to dig a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, partly because thousands of the Europeans he brought with him fell victim to mosquito-borne disease...
...Speaker Sam Rayburn's hideaway has been colorfully retold many times, most notably in Truman's own folksy memoirs and Robert Donovan's delightfully readable two-volume history of the Truman years. What McCullough provides -- as he did for Teddy Roosevelt in Mornings on Horseback and for the Panama Canal in The Path Between the Seas -- is a sense of historic sweep. The onset of the cold war, the Marshall Plan, the seizure of the steel mills, the Korean War and the sacking of General Douglas MacArthur all read like chapters from an epic novel, and best...
...Verdi's Otello. The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text to texture in vintage film-noir style. Othello: the postwar man who feels betrayed by his wife. Desdemona: the innocent...
Worlds such as East New York, where the shooting took place are just that--isolated, enclosed prisons. As a social worker last summer for a group in Manhattan which advocates in family court for poor kids from broken families, I went to East New York several times. From Canal Street in lower Manhattan, it's good half-hour subway ride to the eastern heart of Brooklyn, and the land of East New York...