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...somewhat desensitized and disillusioned by the all-too-familiar scenario: The imperialist "liberator" of the region, in an effort to extend and protect its domain, attacks a strategically placed--but militarily defenseless--country in its "backyard." Haunted by past war failures and a need to justify an awesome war machine, the "liberator" fears that the resources of the neighboring country may slip from its control...
...stage, Ross's direction is helped greatly by sound orchestrator Sonya Raminsky, who masterfully handles the effects and lends her domain an air of theatricality equalling that of the stage itself. The beeps and blips belched by social science computer Pazook are wonderfully hilarious, and Professor Huml once recieves a phone call from what appears to an adult emigrant from Charles Schultz's Peanuts series...
...reliably, like a lamp, where the conditions of light, constant from day to day, enabled him to pursue his researches into color without distraction. Later he would find this stability by moving permanently to Nice, but it was not available in Paris. Following ) the sun, going south to a domain of purer light and color, had been his obsession since his first trips to Provence in his Fauvist years. In North Africa it produced radiant motifs: the green garden, the white breastlike curves of marabout domes, the angled cuts of shadow in street and alley, the blue haze of light...
...Grand Acquisitor never seemed to notice that the Roaring Eighties had ended until suddenly his cash started running out. So far, Trump has not missed any payments on his estimated $3 billion in loans and junk bonds. But his lenders and suppliers have begun to fear that Trump's domain is an overleveraged structure built on swagger and bluff. His creditors have suddenly demanded proof of his financial prowess, and he is coming up short. "He's a desperate man. Everywhere Trump is walking, there's a fire under his feet," observes Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis financier and sometime raider...
India's indignation about foreign economic pressure has deep historical roots. In the mid-1700s the English East India Company subjugated the region and ran it as a private domain for a century. "The U.S. must realize it's a question of national pride," says H.S. Singhania, co-chairman of the Indo- U.S. Joint Business Council. "We cannot have the U.S. dictating our economic policy...