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...seductiveness of the performer's art. He prowled like a stand-up comic, permitted himself the occasional thin smile, inflected his stats with Bob Hope-style throwaway lines ("But I gotta tell ya . . . "). When asked to appraise Saddam's soldiering skills, he snorted a "Ha!," then launched into a catalog of caustic irony. He tamped his rage into questions intimidating ("Have you ever been in a minefield?") and rhetorical ("Do I fear a cease-fire?"). But the most moving moment came when he caught himself describing the low allied casualty rate as "miraculous." Then his emotions briefly stumbled over...
...catalog of astonishments that will forever mark the chronicles of the gulf war, none is more dramatic than the remarkable professionalism of the U.S. soldiers who planned and fought the battles. That was exemplified most visibly by the smooth TV performances of top military officers in Washington and Saudi Arabia. Intelligent, frank, sometimes eloquent, these men seemed to personify a new class of American military leaders who not only have a < thorough grasp of their trade but also demonstrate broad political and worldly sophistication -- not to mention p.r. savvy...
...although "Entartete Kunst" is still an archsymbol of cultural repression, it remains vague in detail. The catalog was a mere brochure, and only a few photos of the actual installation seem to have survived. What, exactly, was in the show? Below the obvious surface of anti-Semitic and anti- Modernist stereotypes, what did it actually represent? How did it fit into the larger programs of Nazism, and why was it so popular...
...Mormon Tabernacle Choir to belt out the Horst Wessel Song in the Hollywood Bowl, the museum has spared no efforts to sample the culture of the time as vividly as possible for an audience to whom the Third Reich is, at most, a remote and unwelcome memory. And the catalog, with its essays by Barron and other hands, German scholars as well as American ones, is certain to remain the definitive study of Nazi cultural repression for many years to come...
...Library catalog fully electronic (Dartmouth and Harvard...