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...French collaboration with the Nazi occupiers. Many French feared the result would rip open barely healed wartime divisions among themselves. It turned out, however, that the French followed the trial with calm rather than passion. The proceedings were regarded almost as a history lesson rather than an occasion to refight painful and never forgotten war experiences...
...that the White House has failed to communicate it effectively. Says an aide: "Carter can actually run on his record, as ridiculous as that may sound at first to some people." But Caddell disagrees. Says he: "I would suggest that there is little to be gained in trying to refight the past three years to prove some point that some people feel about the Administration's performance...
...gravestone. Oct. 29, 1929; Dec. 7, 1941; May 22, 1980. A day that will live in infamy, a day of shame. On that day, if all goes as expected, baseball will cease, the summer rites indefinitely suspended while the rich and the super-rich, the players and the owners, refight battles won and lost over the last decade...
...moment, it seemed unlikely that the U.S. would have the stomach to refight Viet Nam. The war had already cost too much in lives and money wasted 9,000 miles away?more than 56,000 Americans dead and 303,000 wounded, upwards of 1 million dead Vietnamese, $141 billion spent, 7 million tons of bombs dropped?and all for a war that came, more or less, to nothing. The cost had also been exorbitant in hatred and alienation at home...
Sure, a lot of Molly's monologues in Ulysses are not for sodality teas, but the people filming the book in Dublin are not anxious to refight that long court battle of some 35 years ago about whether James Joyce's brilliant book was also unspeakably dirty. Nor do they wish to bowdlerize the bawdier passages reproduced in the script. So they've decided that when the film with its cast of English, Irish and Scottish stage actors is released simultaneously in 135 U.S. and 15 European cities next March, it will play for a mere three...