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...challenge that awaits Reagan on his return to Washington includes an irrevocable factor: even this most resilient of Presidents is running out of time. The period in which he must regain the initiative or see his last term fade into lame-duck stagnation appears to be dwindling rapidly. Political considerations will dominate the capital once the new year begins and midterm congressional elections approach. But as Reagan negotiates with Congress this fall, he must also prepare for his all-important summit with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The President has often been highly successful when tackling one or two major issues...
...America, and it never stops. But it comes to rest at a certain moment. The moment is hard to pin down, but it occurs perhaps when the immigrant's double life and double vision converge toward a single state of mind. When the old life, the old home fade into a certain unreality: places one merely visits, in fact or in the mind, practicing the tourism of memory. It occurs when the immigrant learns his ultimate lesson: above all countries, America, if loved, returns love...
...says Garrison. Many authorities believe that the problem is here to stay. "Today the fellows do not leave the gang," says University of Chicago Sociologist Irving Spergel. "They are not educated. There are no more unskilled jobs. There is no place to go." Others think the new bands will fade, just as most older ones did. "Gangs last only as long as members can't make it in the mainstream," says UCLA Psychologist Rex Beaber. "As the expectations of success go up, the need for the protective gang enclave diminishes." One scholar already sees some reason for hope in Miami...
...Ordeal of Flight 487 will slowly fade from the screen, a casualty of overexposure and a martyr to the war against terrorism...
While most fans are content to watch Captain Louis Renault and Rick Blaine (Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca) walk off into the fog together, Thomson asks more. Where did the cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...