Word: heel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SUDDENLY THE classroom door flew open. The tapping of a heel was heard. Then a tune: "I'm the type of guy, who likes to write a line/Yeah, I'm a writer/Ooh, ooh, a writer I write around, 'round, 'round, 'round...
While Alfonsin was naturally elated by his victory over the military rebels, he is well aware that he has scarcely brought the armed forces to heel. The disgruntled officers clearly hoped to unsettle the government, and they could try to do so again. Says an Argentine official: "If they could nominate officers and make decisions, they hoped to reassert what they see as a natural right. Then they'd say that such-and-such a minister was a Communist and had to go. Eventually, they may have been looking for a coup down the road." Alfonsin's task...
...fter all, I was myself the child of a successful revolt against a great power [and had] at least some knowledge of what weakness is like, some awareness of the view from underneath, and of how it felt to be there, on the bottom, looking up at the descending heel...
...former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara puts it, a credible deterrence presupposes a believable command and control structure. Aaron's concern is that C 3 is the Achilles' heel of America's capacity to respond. "Deterrence is like fine crystal," he says. "It's tough, but brittle and can shatter...
From time to time a good idea or clever dramatic conflict appears in Sweettable. But just as the audience starts to get interested, the moment is mercilessly crushed beneath the heel of Ribman's pompous phrasing and erratic characterization. This play is bad in a painful way, as it time and again raises your expectation that something worthwhile is about to happen, then disappoints you by dropping the theme or hiding behind a convenient cliche. The wasted talents of the director, cast, designers and crew make the spectacle all the more pitiful. Sweettable never bores you; it just makes...