Word: comradeships
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Jackson last week expressed his "sincere congratulations and respectful appreciation" to Dukakis for running a high-road campaign. Dukakis lately has been almost flowery in public allusions to his rival. Yet the prospect of genuine comradeship between these diametrically opposed personalities seems farfetched. The two men are poles apart in their approaches to just about - everything...
...tableaux are cannily staged by Sellars, doing his cleanest operatic work in years. The banquet scene in the Great Hall of the People that concludes the first act becomes a brilliantly calibrated choral scene in which toasts of comradeship are punctuated by popping flashbulbs and delirious, crashing chords. "It's like a dream," sings Nixon, and suddenly the picture freezes, as if the hold button had been pressed...
...between round-table discussions and Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko appeared one morning in a bright red suit. Black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines waited outside the three designated hotels to ferry around the visiting VIPs, but many of the stars preferred to troop onto buses in a display of good comradeship...
...real good. Aging lefties can see the film as a demonstration of war's inhuman futility. Graybeards on the right may call it a tribute to our fighting men, in whatever foreign adventure. The intelligentsia can credit Platoon with expressing, in bold cinematic strokes, Stone's grand themes of comradeship and betrayal. And the average youthful moviegoer -- too young to remember Viet Nam even as the living-room war -- may discover where Dad went in the 1960s and why he came home changed or came home in a body...
Britain is America's ally, but that abstract agreement is brought to life by personification, by the friendship and ideological comradeship of Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Libya is America's enemy, but that enmity glowers as a private hostility between Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi. If the values of American initiative need commending, Reagan will shed his spotlight on a Mother Hale of Harlem, as he did in the 1985 State of the Union message, and elevate one woman to emblemize an entire economic and social theory. If heroism in war is to be honored, a single veteran will stand beside...