Word: processes
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Because of the rigidly democratic procedure America employs for selecting its team, in this country the Olympic mountain has two peaks, and many of the athletes are in the process of trying to hold their bodies together after the recent trials for the second climb in September. The strain of it is as heavy as the oofing and puffing of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the regal heptathlete who has transcended her event. Almost nobody knows what in the world a heptathlete does, but almost everyone knows she is the best in the world at doing...
Hussein's bitter gambit may be an attempt to force a recognition of his central role in the peace process. It would be a vindication for the King if Arafat fails to live up to the responsibilities thrust upon him and is compelled by his constituency to return -- kaffiyeh in hand -- to plead for help from the King. "Behind Hussein's action is his conviction that Arafat won't be able to pull it off," says Joseph Sisco, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Near East Affairs...
...state," the Secretary of State said last week. "If there's going to be peace between Israel and its neighbors, then Jordan is involved." Hussein would not disagree; as he said in his speech last week, "Jordan will not give up its commitment to take part in the peace process." By abdicating responsibility for the West Bank, however, Hussein is challenging the U.S., Israel and the P.L.O. to work together toward a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict -- without relying so heavily on him. The question is what it will take to persuade the King to step back into...
Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges, in the performance of his life) knows better. He just nods sober agreement with Hughes. He is in the process of creating a utopian automobile that will get no further off the ground, commercially speaking, than the Goose did. But who cares? He is not in the business of building empires; he is in the business of building dreams. And for him, as for Hughes, it is necessary to reproduce his fancy only once in reality to achieve fulfillment. Indeed, after seeing Francis Coppola's marvelous Tucker, one believes that if the inventor had been forced...
Failure rescued Tucker from that dismal fate. He has passed into popular history as a more interesting figure, at once heroic and cautionary: the little guy who dared to buck the big guys and got squished in the process. It is easy to see why he appealed to Coppola, who has been trying to put Tucker's story on the screen for something like a decade. It is not just simply that as a child Coppola was knocked out by a glimpse of the Tucker Torpedo at an auto show in the late '40s. It is rather that...