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From that moment, the film fragments and divides into three plots: the past (in which a young twenty-ish Jean--played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson--soars through her first and most powerful romance); dinner-party flashbacks that might lead to some explanation of Morgan's mess; and the present--we see Jean coming to grips with why he "did it" to her as well as some impressively incisive glimpses into the lives of several of Jean's new acquaintances...
...early 1983 though, another classified document painted a considerably bleaker picture. Leaving Pollyanna-ish to Reagan, the document conceded that the document their current levels, were Cub Scouts the jungles of Nicaragua. They couldn't hold major population centers, much less challenge the Sandinista regime...
Historians will look back with a chuckle on this book as a prime example of the sort of pollyanna-ish thought that dominates conservatives in the 1980s. Prosperity, conservation, freedom seem to these people the three points of an inviolable triangle. Fortunately, American political life has not yet become so one-dimensional as that...
...election, Keynote Speaker Mario Cuomo told thedele gates, "will answer the question of what kind of people we want to be." The Democrats knew what kind of people the Reaganites wanted to be. They portrayed Reagan's faith as a crass and self ish individualism. The Democratic way, as described in San Francisco, is a compassionate sharing, a mutuality, the nation seen as a family, each member precious and worthy of care...
...caucus in a Des Moines school the chairwoman initially counted "35-ish for Mondale, 30-plus for McGovern" University of Northern Iowa History Professor Charles Quirk, Brian's father, thinks the inexact, homespun democracy is terrific. People criticize the caucuses as a meaningless media show," he says "But it s a civics lesson for us all. Both the politicians and the people are better...