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...annealing fire. Miller has said that at its heart Salesman is "a love story between a man and his son, and in a crazy way between both of them and America." As the wounded party in that triangle, Malkovich gives a subtly textured performance in which anguished puzzlement never gives way to self-pity. In that sense, at least, he remains this Willy's son. But all the actors in this brilliantly chosen cast are exemplary in their resistance to those easy generalizations that are often the curse of plays as ambitious, ambiguous and spacious as this...
...that this was, hi fact, the President's decision. Astonished, I phoned Reagan at Camp David and explained that Habib was already en route to Damascus to keep an appointment with Syrian President Assad; he simply could not wait. When Reagan responded, I detected a note of puzzlement in his voice. He knew nothing about the instructions to Habib, and I gained the impression that he had not even received them...
...else but the speaker ever took himself quite so seriously? The man who rescued France from ignominy in World War II and from constitutional paralysis afterward was not always as good as his word, much to the exasperation of his wartime Allies and the puzzlement of his countrymen. But as Don Cook, longtime Paris bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, points out in this robust, unsentimental biography, Charles de Gaulle never deviated from the idea that animated his entire career. As he once summed it up, "France cannot be France without greatness...
...dissenting view. Yet, this subtle gesture indicates plainly an appalling and unacceptable private prejudice where I, frankly, had not observed one. When such sentiment foments openly, we can rationally challenge it. But if it remains submerged, only given to autonomous, spiteful assaults, we are left with our anger, puzzlement, and fear...
Though change and expansion have brought "a different, more complicated sense of mission," Huntington says, the essential focus of the center is still research. Brown agrees "The issues have become more complex," he says. "and while that involves some puzzlement. It makes it very exciting...