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Paradjanov's more cautious colleagues have referred to him as "kind of mad." It may be equally delirious for Westerners to demand of today's Soviet film makers that they bring to their craft the passionate recklessness of their predecessors. Revolutionary fervor, like first love, passes quickly; in the long run, any marriage of art and the state demands fidelity and fealty. Official Soviet cinema is settling into middle age with all the virtues of a Chekhovian "good wife": it is handsome, thoughtful, often charming and, above all, discreet about the master's excesses and failings...
...positions. Decisive progress on the Palestinian issue, beyond the ambiguous Camp David formula, is indispensable in this respect. So is an Iranian policy that solves the hostage crisis without destroying the chances of cooperation between the U.S. and Iran once Iran's revolution moves, as it inevitably must, from fervor and ferment to reconstruction and management. The third effort should aim at achieving a détente without illusions. We need a framework for change through competition waged in ways acceptable to both sides. This entails a resumption of arms control negotiations, a coordinated Western policy on East-West trade...
...conviction that those feelings represent. On the complex questions of national and international importance, the percentage of citizens who approve or disapprove of a particular position do so not only "strongly, partly or not at all"; the response is also tempered by emotion, expectation, circumstance, economics or moral fervor. Those who take the public pulse and those who report the findings are more duty-bound than ever to provide the interpretive framework that shapes the numbers...
...example set by the European steel-producing nations and attempt a long-term restructuring of the auto industry, since they will end up paying for the results anyway. But central economic planning has never been Congress' favorite project, and it certainly has no hope amidst the current budget-cutting fervor. In all likelihood, Congress will leave the restructuring of out ailing auto industry to the workings of the free market...
...surface, whether he's breaking down the door or erecting a new one to keep the world out, and McDonough provides this desperate vitality. When he repents his first act drunkenness (and his entrance in a garbage can, surely an inspired bit of dramatic symbolism) with typical quixotic fervor, the futility becomes only more apparent. He can rant and rave but never escape the curse...