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...would be! The bipolar world would grow other centers of power, ones based more on economic than on military might. Although the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would no doubt remain competitors, their rivalry would begin to resemble the ones that have always existed between powerful nations rather than a Manichaean struggle between two profoundly incompatible views about individuals and society. This could ease the nuclear threat that has long defined the cold war. Instead, that threat could serve to define the common stake each side has in assuring the world's survival...
...political art around in America today, but few political artists of real weight. When bad art is busy defending the exploited, does it place one with Pinochet to speak of taste? Most political artists offer values that seem hardly more nuanced than the New Masses cartoons of the 1930s: Manichaean Punch-and-Judy shows of good and evil, projecting ideological stereotypes onto schematically experienced realities. But one striking exception is Leon Golub...
...continues this Manichaean probe. More important, it gives Martin his best movie chance yet to spotlight his bravura brand of physical comedy. Watch Roger/Edwina attempt to walk down the street, or go to the bathroom, or make love; each move is a sublime display of schizophrenic coordination. Watch right-side Edwina take control in a courtroom, as left-side Roger falls asleep and the ever-so-feminine Edwina moves "their" body in a grotesquely macho strut. The actor's challenge is impossibly complicated−Steve Martin playing Lily Tomlin playing Roger Cobb−and beautifully realized. The rest...
...schools of thought developed. Liberals treated foreign policy as a subdivision of psychiatry, conservatives as an aspect of theology. Liberals equated relations among states with human relations, emphasizing trust and unilateral gestures of good will. Conservatives saw in foreign policy the eternal struggle of good with evil, a Manichaean conflict that recognized no middle ground and could end only with total victory. Deterrence ran up against liberal ideology and its emotional evocation of peace in the abstract; coexistence grated on the liturgical anti-Communism of the right, for there could be no compromise with the devil...
...prosecution painted a profile of a "mad-dog killer" with a Manichaean personality: intelligent, literate and talented, but also a pathological liar, frustrated dreamer and contemptuous failure. Andrew Hayes, 16, who was among the many witnesses who implied that the defendant was a homosexual, testified that he had been offered money by Williams to perform oral sex. Others, including Bookkeeper Denise Marlin, indicated that Williams was a bigot. Said she: "He used to call his own race niggers." In his summation, Assistant District Attorney Jack Mallard concluded: "Any person who could kill over and over for no apparent reason would...