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...POINT HERE is that JFK, JFK notwithstanding, was not actually Gandhi with a Brahmin accent. Stone has failed to grasp that the causes of the Cold War, and of its bastard child the Vietnam war, were more deep-seated than a shadowy cabal skulking around the Pentagon. In fact, that lets us all off the hook. But America's involvement in Vietnam cannot be explained by a couple of bullets--even magic bullets...
...Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music's unpredictable juxtapositions, its intensifications and easings, its shifts in perspective, its encompassing grasp of powerful and disparate emotions, that we find Mahler -- and ourselves...
...protective and intuitive senses society demands. Her job at the local dry cleaner is so comforting, compared to the rest of her daily experiences, that Martha often shows up on her day off. Morris triumphantly evokes the sad, vivid life of a character excluded, for reasons she cannot grasp, from the magic circle of friendship and family...
...protective and intuitive senses society demands. Her job at the local dry cleaner is so comforting, compared to the rest of her daily experiences, that Martha often shows up on her day off. Morris triumphantly evokes the sad, vivid life of a character excluded, for reasons she cannot grasp, from the magic circle of friendship and family...
...services already screen all personnel and recruits for the AIDS virus and reject applicants who test positive. And Defense Department lawyers did not raise the AIDS issue in arguing the academy's case. Steffan's attorney, Paula Ettelbrick, said Gasch "reached out to grasp some other rationale" for barring homosexuals because the old anti-gay arguments had lost credibility. Gasch made his attitude clear during a hearing, when he called Steffan a "homo...