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Reagan: "Now, look fellas, I've never said that stealing was immoral--sometimes people must steal in order to get food in this decadent American capitalist society. Furthermore, we have a civic responsibility to protect the life of this good man. God made a threat, and who are we to risk its validity. The nomination stands...
...frills, hardworking session confined to the capital rather than the far-ranging tour of the U.S. that Reagan had envisioned. That could have been a propaganda disaster for Gorbachev: night after night Soviet television viewers would have been treated to the sight of their leader amid capitalist luxury that sharply contrasted with their own dreary surroundings. Moreover, with no agreement on Star Wars, says Soviet Analyst William Hyland, the "Soviets don't want to invest the political capital of a lengthy summit in this Administration...
...Beijing became clinched in an acrimonious contest for ideological supremacy. The Kremlin no doubt felt relief at the end of the Maoist era. Nonetheless, the mixture of central planning and market economics that developed in China starting in 1978 initially prompted criticism that Beijing was heading down the capitalist road. Since Gorbachev launched his own brand of Communist reconstruction early last year, mutual suspicion has given way to cautious interest and growing - cooperation. Last year China exported $1.2 billion worth of goods to the Soviet Union, compared with only $143 million in 1982, while imports jumped from $243 million...
...great deal of America." They might end up, he said, at his ranch near Santa Barbara. "I've thought it would be kind of nice to invite him up to our 1,500-ft. adobe shack that was built in 1872 and let him see how a capitalist spends his holidays...
More problematic is Hancock's heavy-handed political rhetoric. There's a highly emotional scene in the play-within-a-movie where the ex-cons decry the fact that they are "victims of a capitalist society" and ask "Where are the big criminals?" But these are the same men who sing "I got things up my ass, I got things up my nose." It's funny, but it subverts the movie's well-touted "message...