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...petty turf battle within the CIA turned a potential opening to Iran into a misbegotten arms-for-hostages deal that fell apart because of the squabbling and led to disclosure of the Iran-contra scandal. That is the contention of one of the factions that are still feuding hotly over the foreign policy disaster. As reports circulated about the imminent retirement of CIA Director William Casey, who is suffering from brain cancer, the agency itself is agonizing over its handling of the Iran initiative...
...Sophocles and soul, The Gospel at Colonus, which was later televised on PBS. The next year saw a triumphant reprise of Einstein, while last season brought Wilson's incandescent play The Golden Windows. It also brought forth a full-fledged disaster in The Birth of the Poet, a misbegotten collaboration among Punk Novelist Kathy Acker, Composer Peter Gordon, Set and Costume Designer David Salle and Director Richard Foreman that was aptly greeted with a chorus of catcalls...
Earlier Serban opera productions, notably a misbegotten Turandot for London's Royal Opera House, have been willful. But in The Juniper Tree he has had the good sense to emulate the haunting imagery and striking tableaux that are Wilson's hallmarks. The tree, whose branches agonizingly split apart as the father dines lustily on his unholy supper, is pure Wilson; so is the unexpected apparition of the first wife, aboard what appears to be a rhinoceros, as the guilty stepmother's conscience afflicts...
...improperly billing some $7.5 million while producing the DIVAD, a prototype for a gun designed to protect troops from air attack. The weapon later became known as the Sergeant York when a contract to make it was awarded to Ford Aerospace in 1981. The Sergeant York turned into a misbegotten project that was finally scrapped four months ago, after $1.8 billion had been spent on development...
...sense of American impotence and failure and limitation and passivity, away from dishonored Presidents and a lost war. Away from what had become an American inferiority complex. Away from descendant history. Running away from the past, into the future. Or away from the bad past anyway, the recent, misbegotten past, and into a better past, all mythy and sweetly vigorous, into that America where the future was full of endless possibility. Into an America where, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "The only sin is limitation...