Word: finall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene might have been lifted from the final reel of a western starring John Wayne or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan: thousands of adoring townsfolk cheer as the hero, rigged out in cowboy duds, rides off on a white horse. And just in case some member of the U.S. Congress missed the significance of the white hat cocked on his head, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra spelled out his good intentions last week during celebrations to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sandinista takeover in Nicaragua. In an effort to diminish U.S. anger over the expulsion of its Ambassador to Managua...
...role within the councils of government. I think what Jesse has done in his extraordinary campaign is to let moderate and even many conservative Democrats see that the issues that are important to Jesse's narrowly defined constituency also apply to them. To me, this may be not the final but at least the penultimate peak in the acceptance of blacks within the American political system . . . Jackson's speech last night was the best ever given at a convention, certainly in my lifetime. I don't think he's equaled anywhere as an orator...
Successful drama demands a strong final act, an inspirational address that seemed beyond Dukakis' rhetoric range. Could the no-nonsense nominee reach within himself to discover the language of leadership? Could he go beyond the pedestrian promises of "good jobs at good wages" to give voice to a new Democratic vision? Having achieved unity, could he now explain what its purpose...
That is not necessarily the final deal. Negotiations are continuing, and Jackson can be expected to keep pressing for more. As he put it, one-upping Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over -- and even then, it's not over...
Glass's music adds the final layer to this psychodrama, and he responds with one of his most daring scores. From the arresting opening chords that symbolize the lurking spacemen -- an alien harmonic system that makes sense to them but not us -- to the striking stretch of C-major that underpins poor M.'s longings for a girlfriend, this primal scream of angst surges and soars on an electric current of inspiration...