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When World War II ended, so did Soviet-American handholding. At the outset of the cold war in the late '40s, U.S. policy turned once again toward quarantine-or containment-of Soviet power. That power seemed so predatory and implacable that the Western democracies believed their only hope was to band together and deter further Soviet expansionism. The idea of actively coaxing the U.S.S.R. toward a more humane social order seemed out of the question. The author of the containment doctrine, George Kennan, held out the dim hope that if the Soviet aggressive drive were held in check, perhaps...
...omniscient narrator, lyrically introducing all the characters and explaining all the village's social intricacies. All sorts of representative characters abound--star crossed lovers, old hags doubling as witches, and dumb country bumpkins. Marie meets all these characters and is swept along into their mundane lives until the volcanic outset of her maturity...
...risk setting a legally insane man free face the irresistible temptation of reaching the "middle ground" of guilty but mentally ill. Instead of finding a defendant guilty but mentally ill only after resolving the question of sanity, jurors would likely agree to return such a verdict at the outset of deliberations, sparing themselves both the difficulty of determining sanity and the danger of returning a potentially dangerous criminal to their community. This new verdict enables jurors to convict defendants who otherwise would, and should, be declared insane. Guilty-but-mentally-ill would imprison those not legally accountable for a crime...
...P.R.C. Peking sees the Hanoi regime as threatening enough in its own right, all the more so since it is an ally of the U.S.S.R. Finally, the Soviets must withdraw their divisions from Mongolia and reduce forces along China's northern frontier. Yet at the very outset of the negotiations in Peking, Ilyichev refused to discuss the Chinese demands. Last week, shortly before the talks adjourned, Vice...
...greedy expression as he listens to his records, all of this has about as much resonance as the picture of the RCA dog cocking an ear for "His Master's Voice." In establishing Fitzcarraldo's motivation so haphazardly. Herzog undermines the rest of the film at the outset: instead of being drawn into a grand quest we are forced to watch an overblown whim...