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...this country. Reagan as a young man never indulged in self-pity. He fought the Depression and won, gaining strength and stature from the challenge. Mondale, as a Midwest preacher's child in those years of drought and deprivation, was scarred by the suffering. Then he heard the glorious promises of Government from his mentor, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and he never looked back...
...city of such glorious materialistic consumption that some first-time visitors are stunned. For instance, in 1963 a young actor named William Campbell met and fell in love with a Yugoslav sociologist while he was in Yugoslavia making a film. He married the woman. Tereza Campbell picks up the story today: "We were flying into L.A., me for the first time. Our song at that time was the one that went, 'Take my hand, I'm a stranger in paradise.' We were humming it, holding hands, and I looked down and saw all these beautiful blue spots...
...leads the pomp and ceremony at the economic summit in London. With television cameras following his every move, Ronald Reagan seems to glide from one glorious "photo opportunity" to another...
...morals of sacrifice, so clear then, are more confusing now." This statement reminds me how we have advanced in the technology of annihilation. Engaging in battles, once thought glorious, is now considered an obscenity. I am reminded of the words of an old hymn, "Time makes ancient good uncouth...
...when the old men meet to act out their perverse codes of honor. Leone filmed the story in the luscious, mythic style that he developed in his popular "spaghetti westerns" with Clint Eastwood and perfected in Once upon a Time in the West (1969), an outsider's glorious, besotted tribute to classical Hollywood cinema. This time, though, the characters are not grand, strutting archetypes. Noodles and Max, their henchmen and adversaries, are spindly figures lost in venality; and Leone's film, true to its subject, is cold, brooding and brutal...