Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logistics of making an epic are awesome. Cimino, like Napoleon, is not the kind of strategist to skip a legion. The film involves more than 1,200 extras; from cravats to camisoles, their costumes had to be authentic. He went to Philadelphia to find a top-hat maker, and even farther afield to track down contemporary firearms and long-retired craftsmen who could make scores of wagons. From Denver, Cimino ordered a 19th century locomotive that had to be rerouted because it was too big for many tunnels. Then came the roundup of 80 wagon teams. Using fewer horses, says...
Economists, proud and powerful in the 1960s, now look like Napoleon's generals decamping from Moscow. Their past prescriptions ?tax tinkering and Government deficit spending to prop up demand, wage and price guidelines to hold down inflation?have been as helpful as snake oil. "Things just do not work now as they used to," says former Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, and who can contradict him? The U.S. economy, bloated and immobilized, has been turned topsy-turvy...
...Napoleon or Wizard...
...time since World War II, the occasion has called for leadership. It was said of Napoleon that he "could look upon a battle scene of unimaginable disorder and see its coherence for his own advantage." In the first 30 months of his presidency, Carter has appeared able to see only unimaginable disorder, which until recently tended to send him niggling after details...
...testiness is understandable. Not since Napoleon's unwelcome visit in 1812 has Moscow faced the prospect of so many Westerners all at once: 300,000 in three weeks next year, or more than half the number the city normally sees in an entire year. These tourists will have unprecedented freedom, if very little time, to move about on their own-and, interestingly, to use cameras and tape recorders in the cities they visit...