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...relapse, on the other hand, will further lead official Washington to consider him a lame duck. For that matter, so too will any indications that his already somewhat unsettling air of detachment has been heightened by his operation and cancer scare. The political dynamics have changed since Reagan was shot in 1981. Then the Hill Republicans were relatively united behind him; now they are badly split and fearful about their own political fates. Almost half the Senate Republicans are up for re-election in 1986, and most are afraid that pocketbook issues like Social Security or tax deductions for second...
...bird of the title is missing for most of the movie. But images that allude to it flutter through the film, in the splaying tail feathers of a dying duck, the folds of an accordion and the breathtaking flight of a parachute harnessed to the back of a bicycle. When a real peacock appears in the movie's quiet coda, it declines to spread its plumage on demand and the onlookers move on, disappointed. Its splendor, like the Gao children's dreams, remains unfledged and all-too-rarely glimpsed. Fortunately, this is not the case with Gu's talents...
...Even as the politicians haggle over control of ministries and key posts in the new government, the seat of real power in Baghdad becomes increasingly difficult to identify. Right now, executive authority remains in the hands of the lame-duck government of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, the U.S. appointee who garnered only 14 percent of the vote in the election and who has turned down offers of a cabinet post in order to claim the role of opposition leader...
...competition between rival Iraqi factions. Now, nobody really holds the ring, and the contest to shape post-Saddam Iraq is more wide-open than ever. The election has not resolved the basic political conflicts among Iraqis, but it has turned the current U.S.-appointed government into a lame duck and has diminished U.S. influence over the next...
...don’t want to be a lame duck for a long period of time,” she said. “You don’t want to do it too precipitously because you want your faculty to make a smooth transition...