Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central America and Washington had excised several pages. "Some way or other," however, the offending pages had stayed in copies of the manual distributed to the contras. Reagan strongly denied that the U.S. did or ever would support assassination as a political policy. Mondale called the manual "a classic example of a strategy that's embarrassed us and strengthened our opposition" and said that "a President must know these things. How can this happen . . . and the President say he didn't know...
This is understandable enough. If Reagan had replied fully to a panelist's invitation to specify those hypothetical crises where the U.S. would be justified in intervening with force, he might have duplicated what some view as Dean Acheson's classic omission in 1950 of defining the U.S. "defensive perimeter" in Asia in a way that appeared to exclude South Korea, thus seeming to give a green light to the North Korean invasion of that country...
...word of caution. Don't laugh so hard that you miss either the talent behind these clothes or the spirit with which they are made, the ebullience, the cunning shunning of convention that exalts fashion even as it seems to mangle it. And consider a revision to the classic Rolling Stones refrain: "It's only rock 'n' roll, but I can wear...
...17th century cavalier with the dash, sweep, idealism and tireless eloquence of youth. In 1898, when the original French production played London, it arrived like a gust of rose-scented air in the stolid cathedral of naturalism. Proclaimed Critic Max Beerbohm: "Even if Cyrano be not a classic, it is at least a wonderfully ingenious counterfeit of one." And even if, in this century, the counterfeit has become more evident than the ingenuity, Rostand's rhapsody has attracted new generations of star actors, from Walter Hampden to Ralph Richardson to José Ferrer in the Oscar-winning film version...
...campaign must get the message to the right audience. Unfortunately, the theme-oriented copy-cat attitude of most film executives justifies the abandonment of good films if a similar has just gone down the tubes, irrespective of their relative qualities. As long as America and Hollywood survive, the classic comic romance will live on, preferably in versions as good or better than American Dreamer...