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...film offering the spectacle of a Komodo dragon being transported across a state line for immoral purposes can be lightly dismissed. That's especially true when it also offers a delicious send-up of the contemporary passion for exotic culinary experiences and an equally wicked satire of the grander pretenses of cinema scholarship. The latter is an occupation that director Bergman, who has a Ph.D. in cultural history, narrowly escaped by turning to more self-consciously comic forms (he wrote The In-Laws and the play Social Security...
...larger than his Oval Office desk. In fact, an inconspicuous block of marble about that size was erected in front of the National Archives Building in Washington 20 years after he died, in 1945. But as his place in history has grown, so too has the demand for something grander. Next year ground will at last be broken on a "gardenesque" layout of granite walls and waterfalls near the Potomac River...
...such imprecision may not be a bad transitional state. After nearly a half-century's concern about national security, a certain etymological inertia may be inevitable. This ingrained way of ordering and worrying may yield not so much to outright retirement as to a kick upstairs -- to a grander role with little real significance...
...itinerary for his upcoming trip through the region because leaders in Mexico, Venezuela and Costa Rica found it "inconvenient" to receive him. Quayle will confine his travels, scheduled for Jan. 27 to 29, to Honduras, Panama and Jamaica. Conceded a senior White House official: "We were hoping for a grander tour than this...
...baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams...