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...balancing act. Or, in another Custer image, he makes his stand against the anti-American and anti-Western onslaughts he perceives everywhere?but he is not about to suggest that it is a last stand. Moynihan has enraged Third World delegates, discomfited his Western European colleagues, and brought cheer to the hearts of Americans, who have taken to his brand of dukes-up diplomacy and feel that someone is at last talking back at the world...
...They cheer le cowboy in le western, eat le snack (pronounced znag) or le sandwich in le living room or le drugstore, and sip un cocktail or un Scotch sur les rocks at le party au le weekend. Now, in a new effort to knockouter "the most obvious instances of language degradation and to protect the citizen from possible harm," a new law, Number 75-1349, forbids the use of foreign words in advertising, business contracts, TV and radio programs and the like...
Rocky, of course, loses, on points. But, the film asserts, he has really won. After it's over, he tells Adrian "I'm gonna know for the first time in my life that I'm not just another bum from the neighborhood." With Rocky everyone from every neighborhood should cheer. Only the unrealism of the American dream has died...
Then sound the trumpets, drop the handkerchiefs, and cheer the carnage while American Football, Character and Sportsmanship burn...
...season was a disaster; discounted for inflation, this year's holiday volume may not have matched and at any rate did not exceed 1973's. All the same, many retailers will be stocking up for spring much more generously than last year, in anticipation of continued consumer cheer. But they will also be cautious and realistic, remembering too well what it means to be caught with oversupplies. Says Joseph Ellis, a retailing analyst at the investment firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "We are not in an atmosphere of retail profligacy-not yet." Meanwhile, in the weeks before...