Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foley gives his actors a lot of rope, and the option of lassoing their characters or hanging themselves. Within the strictures and excesses of Method acting, most of them do just fine. Christopher Penn (Sean's brother) is good as a slow wit with a long fuse; Eileen Ryan (Sean's and Christopher's mother) plays their grandma as a silent witness against familial treachery. Masterson has a face and a talent worth watching. Walken, flashing Faginese charm across his splendidly wasted face, is a monster any son could find walking into his nightmares...
...world watched something it had never seen before: the U.S. Navy moving into position so that the Commander in Chief could have the option of militarily punishing another nation for its sponsorship of international terrorism. As West European allies fretted about the potential consequences, and as Senate and House leaders gave qualified support while waiting to be consulted under the War Powers Resolution, the pilots of the F/A-18 Hornets and A-7E Corsairs stood ready for the command, should it come, to attack and destroy Libya's airfields, radar stations, Soviet-built missile sites and terrorist training camps. No matter...
...would answer no questions about Gaddafi or Libya. With or without any real information, however, enough people were speculating about the details of the operation to cause the Administration to feel that it was becoming impossible to maintain tactical surprise. It also became extremely difficult to keep open the option of making no major response to the most recent terror attack. "There's no question we created a bit of a Frankenstein's monster," said an NSC official on Friday. "In a way, I guess, we meant to do that. But the monster was supposed to spook Gaddafi...
Weissman said that "three people very much wanted to debate" and that, because the format calls for three speeches, each side should have three speakers present. The Institute offered Republicans the option of bringing a third debater, but they refused...
Death may have been out as an option-but zombie imitations were...