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Besides, even if it were possible to reimpose totalitarianism, no one is under any illusion that it would solve the country's economic problems. Quite the contrary, a severe lurch to the right would lead to another cold war in the Soviet Union's relations with the West, and that would mean even less foreign trade and investment...
OPPOSITION to a popular war alone won't devastate their presidential prospects. But coupled with the Democrats' crippling reputation as the "peace party," it probably will. The leftward lurch of the party since Vietnam has eroded public confidence in its ability to lead. The same party that once championed national strength and self-assertion under Wilson and Kennedy now embraces, to varying degrees, the non-interventionism and pacificism of George McGovern and Walter Mondale...
...MISER. Philip Bosco does everything one could ask in the title role of Moliere's satire, except the indispensable: lurch into believable love-struck madness when his cherished cashbox is stolen. Other actors in this Broadway revival swoop and flutter and generally diminish the text, save for splendidly real and moving bits by John Christopher Jones as a long-suffering servant and Adam Redfield as a splenetic...
...allure to 300 subtle technological innovations that add up to a remarkably quiet and smooth ride, even at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h. in the LS400. The Lexus' computerized engine-control system, for example, retards the engine's r.p.m. just before a gear shift, which reduces the lurch common to many automatic transmissions. The car bristles with luxuries as well: a steering column that automatically adjusts to different drivers, heated seats and an optional telephone mounted in the steering wheel...
...from such generosity is the cost of their materials. Thus, in a historic fit of legislative folly, the Government began to starve its museums just at the moment when the art market began to paralyze them. It bales out incompetent savings-and-loan businesses but leaves in the lurch one of the real successes of American public life, its public art collections...