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...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty
...Ford's method is familiar: we luxuriate inside Bascombe's head; treat ourselves to his readings of the headlong, clattering muchness of U.S. life; enjoy the precise registers of his melancholy. A lot happens in this book, including a bombing at a hospital, a romantic crisis and an abrupt slide into chaos, yet it doesn't have much of a narrative arc. Still, there's nothing like a few days of life seen through the eyes of an exemplary sufferer to give you a glimpse of what living is all about...
...When the legend becomes fact," a cynical newspaperman says in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." Rosenthal's picture was the war's definitive photo op. It didn't matter that the flag raising was about the least dangerous activity any of the men had engaged in on Iwo Jima, or that none of them had raised the first flag. No visages are visible in the photo--an anonymity that added to the shot's sense of selfless, faceless heroism, as well as giving the War Department's publicists leeway to fiddle with...
Foreign buyers are shouldering an extra risk, since they can buy an American show that works for them but gets canceled in the U.S. In Britain, Channel 4's acquisitions director Jeff Ford says he was willing to take a risk on the much anticipated NBC drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip because of creator Aaron Sorkin's track record with The West Wing. So far, Studio 60--about a Saturday Night Live--like comedy show--hasn't performed all that well. "We feel the show goes beyond TV and is a workplace drama," says Ford of its appeal...
While the Ford and Carter administrations worked hard to cushion the falling dominoes, the Asian dominoes moved quickly to save themselves by buttressing our power. We can't expect to be as lucky with the denizens of the gulf region. And we certainly wouldn't make our luck by staying the course and hiding behind Bush's fears of Middle East dominoes. We need him to unstrap America's still muscular diplomacy to seed the antiterrorist soil within Iraq, to structure a regional peace among states that cringe from regional war, to blunt the disasters of chaos and defeat...