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Rejecting the logic of Stailone's enemies, I hold the opposite position. Stallone is indeed an exemplar par excellence of the dominant values of the Harvard Establishment. What is remarkable is that he was not so honored years earlier...
Among active playwrights, perhaps the most prolific and far-ranging exemplar of the Theater of Ideas is Britain's David Hare, 38. His comedy Pravda, a broadside attack on the political inertia of Fleet Street, co-written with Howard Brenton, has become the hottest ticket in London. He wrote potent screenplays for two current films, Wetherby and Plenty, the latter an adaptation of his 1983 Broadway hit about postwar British decline as reflected in the tormented life of one politically involved woman. Now Hare's A Map of the World, being given its U.S. premiere at the off-Broadway Public...
...most students of the presidency: that vigorous, ebullient presidential leadership would naturally aim at expanding the role of the Federal Government (and the Chief Magistrate), and that any President of contrary outlook would necessarily be a cold, crabbed type or at best likably lazy. Franklin Roosevelt was the exemplar of the bold, joyous activist, Coolidge and Hoover the chill naysayers (so the academic stereotype went), Ike the lazy nice guy. So here came Reagan, not overworking himself but relishing the job and the power, using it with great gusto and skill to shrink the role of Government...
Schickel, a TIME Cinema critic, ruefully considers all aspects of celebrity, including the dark facet of notoriety. John W. Hinckley Jr. stands as an exemplar, a recipient of that "wildly parodistic version of celebrity treatment that is accorded the criminal who has assaulted a well-known person. He gets a police escort and a motorcade . . . For the first time in his hitherto anonymous life people will be curious about his history, his thoughts. In due course, his ravings may find their way into print. Or he will have his story told by a famous novelist...
...birthmark on his forehead.* Trained as a lawyer, he is the first Soviet leader born after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the best educated since Lenin. His speech underscores his upbringing: his mastery of Russian grammar is superior to that of most of his Kremlin predecessors. He is the exemplar of the New Guard, which represents a generation raised after the Stalinist horrors and for which the catastrophe of World War II is an adolescent memory. Though much about Gorbachev remains a mystery...