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Americans loved Reagan because he was genial and optimistic, not a molecule of the neurotic in his body. He liked to tell a slightly peculiar story about a boy who on Christmas morning finds a pile of manure in his room and says brightly, "I just know there's a pony in here somewhere." He was coated with Teflon: blame never attached itself...
...here is Rafi, who has come to London to escape his old crimes as a despot in the Pakistani government. If Cry Freedom finds easy outrage nestling with the victims of state torture, Sammy & Rosie is prepared at least to make the deathbed that a genial torturer can lie in. But Rafi gets no more or less sympathy than any other character in this exuberant egalitarian stew of a movie. Once the empire has died, taking with it the old notions of great men who shape destinies and insignificant men who suffer like extras in an antediluvian epic, every motive...
Local voters have managed for many years to distinguish between genial, snowy-haired Walter J. Sullivan Jr., and David E. Sullivan, an outspoken advocate of rent control and member of the liberal Cambridge Civic Association...
...their muscle to bear, and still the Twins won just nine away games. For that matter, the last time the franchise managed a World Series victory on the road, the Washington Senators won it and Walter Johnson pitched it. Naturally, the people of St. Louis cannot imagine a more genial place than Busch Stadium, though their perspective may have become a little bleary over the years. Ford Frick was the commissioner in 1953, when Gussie Busch bought the team and wanted to rename old Sportsman's Park Budweiser Stadium. Frick ruled out such crass huckstering, but at 88 Busch...
...foolish leader. Americans were all too happy to give Reagan credit for what appeared to be a robust economy, and Reagan was all too happy to accept it. Fifty-nine months of growth, lower taxes, diminished inflation, shrinking unemployment--all was chalked up as the handiwork of the genial fellow in the White House and his band of supply-siders and monetarists...