Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strongly held view, however, is that Washington must devise all its moves in the region in much closer concert with U.S. allies. "The incredible feature of the gulf at the moment is how the U.S. is standing virtually alone, exposed," says Military Historian Edward Luttwak, author of Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace. As Luttwak sees it, "The whole lesson of history teaches the necessity of achieving consensus, at home and abroad, | for such adventures." The U.S. could help form such a consensus by including its allies, particularly Western Europe, in the formation of a coherent American policy. Once...
...also meant that conventions established in the early films ran the risk of calcifying in the later ones. Plenty of cleavage, but no nudity. Innuendos but no dirty words. Most important, a dogged adherence to old-fashioned storytelling -- which, in an industry that has thrown narrative logic outuendo, can make an 007 film seem slow moving. But Bonds were never aimed at the thrills-above-all youth market. Or even, primarily, to the U.S. (where, by the way, each new Bond film is consistently among its year's Top Ten box- office winners). The series has a broader goal...
...nine to three for conviction, the doubts of the three do not impeach the verdict of the nine. ((But)) we know what has happened: the prosecutor has tried and failed to persuade those jurors of the defendant's guilt. In such circumstances, it does violence to language and to logic to say that the government has proved the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt...
What he wishes you first is a love of travel. Travel will hold you back from doting on your troubles, and once you've seen something of the world, you will recognize foreign places as instances of human range. The logic of Athens, the fortitude of London, the grace of Paris -- a city for every facet of the mind. He would have you connect travel with an appreciation of the past as well. In Jerusalem recently, he walked the Old City, brushing thousands of years of faith and murder. He would like you to see yourself as history, to wonder...
...messenger, Amis rejects British understatement. Each story proclaims its own logic and displays a conspicuous style. The effect is an imagining of the unimaginable -- vastly preferable to the megaton moralizing of nuclear nonfiction that makes the unthinkable unreadable...