Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sentimental-satirical vision of back-lot life, a jazzy juxtaposition of past and present, star egos and bit-player frustrations, epic pretensions and commercial hackery. It's a movie for movie lovers, especially those who romanticize the moviemaking process -- and Fellini's undimmed capacity for surreal gestures and devil-may-care imagery...
...President, world leaders prefer the devil they know...
...mystery why the overwhelming majority of the world's Presidents, Prime Ministers and potentates reflexively want to see an incumbent President returned to office. Even America's foes prefer the devil they know to the one they don't. In the eyes of a nervous world, continuity is nearly an absolute virtue. But it is not a particularly American one. The razzle-dazzle of U.S. politics has a way of lifting from obscurity the most unlikely characters, usually by way of some provincial statehouse. A peanut farmer? A movie actor? The Governor of what? Where's that? No wonder that...
...chatting on the porch of Reich's big old Victorian home, nonetheless seemed determined to run against Bush. One reason, Clinton said, was to promote the ideas of investment in the future that were contained in The Work of Nations, which had just been published. A mutual friend, playing devil's advocate, raised several arguments why Clinton should not run, but Reich recalls with a grin, "I just sat there wagging my tail...
...movie's first minutes promise the fire this time. A Patton-size U.S. flag fills the screen and is set ablaze. Video clips of Los Angeles cops pummeling a helpless Rodney King are underlaid with the words of Malcolm X fulminating against the white devil. Flames of black rage gnaw at the fabric of the flag until it is burned into a huge X. America, the image says, created Malcolm X in a centuries-old crucible of race hatred. And the legacy of Malcolm, murdered in 1965, helped define the battered field of today's Stars and Stripes...