Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aide who got him appointed. One sees the spark flash between them and then watches them immediately suppress it, as men and women often do when a larger task is at hand. Both are excellent, as are Yaphet Kotto and David Keith as prisoners trying to decide if they dare to give their trust to Brubaker. One might wish that Director Rosenberg could control his ever zooming, ever panning camera. Stillness would have served this grim film better...
...collective minds of the National Security Council could foresee. Carter acknowledged that. "We eliminated as much risk as possible. But it proves you cannot be sure." And such will always be the problems before Presidents. Teddy Roosevelt talked about it with eloquence in 1899: "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the great twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Virtually all of his successors have leaned heavily on that inspiration...
...West. The Third World does not exist, it is merely a set of Monopoly for the two superpowers. ("Trade you Park Place for Atlantic and Ventnor." "Nyet. Maybe ve trade Baltic and Mediterranean for Boardwalk.") Nixon rattles off lists of "Soviet conquests" as if they were playing cards or, dare one say, dominoes--"Angola, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Mozambique, Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam." Ambiguities, complexities, individual circumstances--irrelevant; nationalism, reaction against imperialism?--mere facades...
...lived with 16 cats at a recreation lodge near Spirit Lake, about five miles north of the peak. He had refused to leave weeks ago, he had told national television audiences, because, he said, "no one knows more about this mountain than Harry, and it don't dare blow...
...prediction he made come true through force of will and intellect. Inch by inch he pulled himself up to Downing Street, from which height he outrageously flattered Queen Victoria (Rosemary Leach). But, true to his romantic temperament, he probably believed most of what he said. "I would dare to offer you my heart," he tells her, "but Your Majesty had it long...