Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ultimately, the fate of North and the others rests with the contents of sealed envelopes of evidence that Walsh filed with the U.S. district court in Washington before the major witnesses began their testimony to Congress. When that evidence is presented, public reaction will not count for much. As former Watergate Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste puts it, "The criminal law is not a beauty contest...
...fate of any of these reforms will ultimately depend on officials whose sense of patriotism is informed by a sincere belief in the rule of law and the workings of democracy. The relentless Iran-contra testimony has been a painful as well as prolonged process, but it has also offered up a sound civics lesson to a nation celebrating the 200th anniversary of its Constitution: that + America is a nation of laws, of checks and balances, and of policies that must be accountable to elected officials and ultimately the people...
...fate of President Reagan and of his Administration is in God's hands," argues Valentin Falin, a principal Soviet spokesman and director of the press agency Novosti. "If Oliver North reveals Mr. Reagan as a co-conspirator, then your President will not be worth a kopek." While the Soviets may be relishing the Iran-contra crisis, their interest is more strategic than voyeuristic. Reagan's current predicament, combined with Mikhail Gorbachev's success at consolidating his own power in the Politburo at his party plenum last month, has convinced many in Moscow that Reagan now needs a summit far more...
...time is some 60 years ago. The place is equally distant, a primitive part of Provence. Why do the machinations of these villains grip us so vividly? Jean is an idealistic tax collector who leaves the city to live close to nature. Why does his fate move us so deeply? Above all, by what means does this cruel tale of victimization -- there is rarely a film that so relentlessly documents the meanness of the human spirit -- manage to release in us, of all ironies, such a spirit of joyous welcome...
...rendering of their world, forcing the reader to recognize that the seemingly minor incidents of life reveal the workings of vast, elemental forces. The other, astonishingly enough, is Greek drama, in which the psychological intimacy among characters is irrelevant, since their destinies are determined by the workings of blind fate. Though naturalism is the controlling mode of Jean de Florette, audiences should bear the Greek model in mind when Manon des Sources, the second part of this work, is released in the fall. In it the eerily beautiful Emmanuelle Beart plays Jean's daughter Manon, now grown up and ready...