Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual week in which Lieut. Colonel Oliver North appeared at the Iran-contra hearings ((NATION, July 20)). Along with many others, I was converted to North's side by the end of the first day. I realize I may be overlooking the issues, but for me it was a relief to cheer for this charismatic all-American Marine in his struggle against a fickle, vacillating, unpredictable Congress...
...public hearings this week will give the White House relief from the almost daily battering of adverse headlines and dramatic TV testimony. But the damage inflicted on Reagan's credibility and his conduct of foreign policy cannot be readily repaired by a few motorcades down the main streets of mid-America. Any President heading into his waning months and faced with a hostile Congress would have an uphill struggle against becoming irrelevant. The nation's living-room view of the strange doings in the Oval Office adds to Reagan's burden...
...voted Band of the Year by the once-progressive Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-'80s. When the Stray Cats' Brian Setzer does his Eddie Chocrane impersonation, and Marshall Crenshaw does his Buddy Holly stand-in bit, our generation's obseesion with the Eisenhower era is cast into vivid relief...
...turning point in the Iran-contra melodrama, resolving one of the essential issues of the scandal. There would be no evidence directly linking Reagan to the ugly and possibly unlawful use of money garnered by selling weapons to terrorists. While the White House staff breathed a sigh of relief over the admiral's disclosure, Reagan at first seemed nonchalant. "What's new about that?" he shrugged. "I've been saying that for seven months...
Acting on the grand scale compounds our relief at slipping free of our modernist bonds, of regressing happily to a time when our serious fictions were both sure and energetic in their morality. But such works require time and space to grow properly. Compression is an invitation to contrivance, forced coincidence and melodrama. And Director-Adapter-Producer Berri (The Two of Us) refused to reduce this film to that level. Using L'Eau des Collines, a two-volume novel by Marcel Pagnol (which was itself a reworking of material the author used in a commercially failed film), Berri pursued...