Word: powerlessness
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Shortly after noon, the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish comes by the Commodore. He has written no poems about the war. "I write my silence," he says. "I need distance to be a witness, not a victim." Since words are powerless against tanks, he feels that his silence is stronger than words. Still, a poem has power. Is Palestine itself a poem? "Yes," he says. "Because a poem is an unachieved desire...
Once again, U.S. foreign policy was on the defensive. Israel's bold strike into Lebanon last week broadcast an embarrassing message to the world: Washington was either powerless to restrain its headstrong Middle East client or tacitly approved of the military operation. It was a no-win diplomatic situation that raised serious questions about U.S. policy and leadership at the very moment when President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig were on a European tour that was intended to burnish the Administration's image abroad. Even the cease-fire that took effect at week...
...lack of influence of the U.S. in the U.N. does not represent some sort of worldwide revulsion against the Reagan Administration or even against me. The fact is that we have been virtually powerless in the U.N. for more than a decade...
...with urban China, Bernstein attempts to plumb the interior hinterland, the very heart of China. Together, these complementary volumes reveal the China of dust and sweat-the China of experience rather than imagination. They create a portrait of a society caught between two worlds one dead and the other powerless to be born...
...debate soon rises to rage. Less innocent than powerless, King finds his "book" for the show increasingly interrupted by caterwauling songs. His prostitutes, college boys and blue-mouthed sheriff-hero are transformed into sanitized cartoons. Disputes with collaborators become glacial standoffs or public snits. A fourth Alamo irregular, 6-ft. 7-in. Director and Choreographer Tommy Tune, fears that the shorter King will "strike" him: "I go home exhausted and all I can see when I close my eyes is your angry face!" King scratches his head. "That dude grew up on a different planet," he decides...