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...quick rescue of the pilot gladdened Pentagon hearts, but the downing remained a reminder that air power, despite its omnipotent, high-tech gloss, does have stark limits. Whether it was the sleek $2 billion radar-eluding B-2 Stealth bomber or the hulking, duct-taped $74 million B-52 pulverizing Serbian targets last week, the essential character of air warfare didn't change: air power, old or new, can always punish a foe but can rarely force him to change his mind. And like any kind of combat, it has mortal risks...
...such a deception really fair? And what of our complicity? Why do so many of us insist on showing our parents only the superficial gloss? We've scanned today's class schedule searching for marquee professors, we'll proudly show-off the magisterial interior of Sanders Theatre, and we’ll probably even pretend that our House Masters know our names. What we should do is have our parents sit with us for an hour while we churn out a senseless response paper. That would give them a clearer picture...
Balm is a sensitive issue, plagued by flashbacks and the slippery slope to gloss. It takes a grown-up gel to shine and soothe. One silky salve, Kiehl's #1 Lip Balm, would never be caught at the end of a chain. But where would American lips be without a vapo-rub-down or bubble-gum flavored-wax? Softer, lighter, healthier. Balm is best when it comes from Kiehl...
...trying to get the most bang for their buck, producers toss in every ingredient in they can think of to make the most profit: the biggest, most expensive actors, the most complicated special effects and the most exotic locales. Time and time again, the one element they always gloss over is a credible story. They figure if they truss it up enough, the audience will be fooled by all the razzle dazzle. Most of the time it doesn't work...
Ackroyd's vividly human More is Arthurian rather than canonical, imperfect yet inspiring. And that is the gloss that Ackroyd develops in what may be called a fantastic sequel to More--even though it was published one year earlier. In the novel Milton in America, Ackroyd has the 17th century Puritan poet and radical escaping to New England after the collapse of the English revolution that he helped foment--itself a catastrophic result of the Protestantism set loose by Henry VIII's divorce. Instead of writing Paradise Lost, the blind and defeated rebel arrives near Plymouth...