Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Played annually at New York City's Lincoln Center, Balanchine's ballet is a classic, a casting-proof sellout that generations of children have grown up on. (After a year or two, they become members of the boisterous Nutcracker fraternity who ritually applaud the prince's victories, always at the same plot points.) The movie should have been a triumph, but somehow it falls short. Not because of the performances, which are fine. Culkin appears a little too camera-wise performing among relative amateurs, but he is an effective prince. Kistler dances with the tender grace of a fairy princess...
...hand. When we finally catch up with Elizardo Sanchez, he tells us to leave our taxi a block away. Sanchez has been outspoken enough to land in prison for eight of the past 12 years. "People don't understand what a regimented state we have," he says. "The proof is that here, unlike Eastern Europe, the government is not changing, even though we have far worse economic pressures...
...this point, however, innovation is the exception. Even in communities that boast a spirit of tolerance, citizens are turning their energies to driving out the homeless. In San Francisco, city planners have designed sleep- proof seats to chase the homeless from bus shelters. Santa Monica's police issue citations to people who loiter in parks after midnight; repeat offenders go to jail. Legislators in Madison, Wisconsin, have outlawed "aggressive panhandling." In Atlanta, where civic leaders want to polish their city in preparation for the 1996 Olympics, new ordinances make it illegal to sleep on park benches, wash motorists' windows...
...crushing its economy, Iraq quietly agreed to U.N. monitoring of its industrial base to prevent any attempt to reacquire weapons of mass destruction. Baghdad demanded an immediate lifting of sanctions against purchase of Iraqi oil, once its main source of foreign revenue. But Washington, among others, called for further proof of cooperation before allowing such a move...
Such statutes of limitations must be modified. Perhaps in cases where it would be impossible for the accused to mount a defense because of witnesses' deaths, the statutes should remain as they are. Or perhaps if a statute were suspended, a greater burden of proof should fall on the plaintiff. But the alleged victims must be allowed their day in court, even if the court they enter operates under different rules...