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Watt apparently wanted to portray environmentalists as subversive extremists so that his own rapacious policies would seem moderate by comparison. A Harris survey in the same issue of Business Week, however, showed that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter environmental regulations, despite their costs. The simple truth is that Watt himself is the extremist, concern for the environment has earned a firm position within the mainstream of American political opinion. By contrast. What's own recent shenanigans in Washington--such as revoking "protected" status for thousands of acres of land in the Midwest while Congress was in recess--betray a dangerous distregard...
...tied your hands with regard to attaining anything." The trouble with the answer, however, was that Reagan's rival in the Kremlin has been talking quite openly about negotiating positions-and tying Reagan up in knots. Preposterous as it seems to Americans, Andropov is managing to portray the Soviet Union as the superpower most concerned about controlling nuclear weapons...
...spoke that drew his constituency and gave his leadership power and influence among the more militant Blacks and those who were members of store-front Negro churches and isolated political organizations. Malcolm X, seeing Black history as a record of conflict between the races, used a dramatic language to portray a battle in order to get the Blacks to be aware of their grave situation. He thought their very lives were in danger...
President Bok likes to portray divestiture as an impractical gesture, favored only by college students and other romantics. Yet the legislature's move is practical as well as symbolic. It serves notice to Pretoria that apartheid must go. And it encourages more than 30 American firms to reconsider both the moral and financial wisdom of maintaining businesses in South Africa. If the Bay State's action reveals a romantic outlook, it is a romanticism that the University would be wise to adopt...
According to program notes, the intent of the script (which covers the last week of Jesus lite but ends before the Resurrection) is to portray a "human Jesus," and, by neither revering nor blaspheming, to explore the problems the Christ stars poses for modern youth. In performance, though, while the company takes some stabs in that direction emphasizing the sensual in Jesus's relationship with Mary Magdalen, for instance, and painting a startlingly sympathetic Judas-- they prove unable to maintain an even enough tone for such analysis Jesus's followers come across as suitably starry-eyed, dutifully and competently executing...