Word: reassertions
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...abandoned ardor around his seated beloved (Teri Weksler). But unlike Fokine's blithe spirit, Morris does not finish by flying out the window. Instead, he and Weksler thrash out their all too mundane frustrations and resentments before he finally carries her off, high above his head, as if to reassert his ideal of love. One Charming Night shows both sides of Morris' creation: ingratiating invention and, occasionally, youthful overkill of a good idea...
...followers go through with their plan to stage a 24-hour strike. Marcos hinted last week that he might use force to quell any outbreak of civil disobedience. Stung by world opinion and holed up in a palace surrounded by barbed-wire barricades, Marcos may try to reassert his power. If that should happen, the only tempering influence left may be Cory Aquino. "She must steer a moderate course," said Businessman Jaime Ongpin late last week. "If she opts for violence, we will end up in anarchy...
...does not, by extension, effectively reflect the nation. It reflects only the unprecedented political scamming over the budget. Congress would still have primary responsibility for formulation the money bills, the president would only add a less-affected dose of national and economic sanity. And of course, Congress can always reassert its will, if it can muster the two-thrids consensus...
...compact volume serves four purposes: 1) to retrace American involvement in Viet Nam by recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir; 3) to reassert the implacability of Communist adversaries and the consequent need to maintain a potent military posture; and 4) to prescribe a future course that would couple a strong defense establishment with a much enhanced economic aid program, aimed at stimulating Third World entrepreneurship and two-way trade. Nixon's proposals have...
...liberals to reassert the dominance they had in the '70s--Trudeau, a progressive who supported social programs, held office for all but a few months from 1968 to 1984--they will have to rebuild their connection with organized labor and come up with more money to advertise on television, which Axworthy says is now the dominant arena of political battle...