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...country has not let pass the occasion of the Bicentennial without a reassessment of what was achieved through her association and friendship with the U.S. in several periods of her more recent history. As we Turks turn in retrospect to the long history of our relations with the U.S., we remember that in the years following World War I, when Turkey struggled to create a national and democratic state on the ruins of a defeated empire, Turks looked at America as the only Western country true to its ideals and respectful of human rights. A later political association between Turkey...
Hough himself deftly ruminates on eras and how they end. Not large, dramatic chunks of history that close with a bang, noticeable to the world, but odd personal eras, those less obtrusive small changes that in retrospect loom large in the heart. Like the time, at the close of Prohibition, when Hallowell's restaurant in Edgartown got a liquor license and went to hell, gastronomically speaking. Or the introduction of offset printing in place of the old linotype at the Vineyard Gazette. At the time Hough, somewhat uneasily, one suspects, tried to see it all as progress. He quotes...
WITH THIS SAME sardonic mischievousness werealize in retrospect Borowczyk has done a whole number on "artsy" filmotography that will probably keep duped "cinema" students taking copious notes. Freudian symbolism gushes from every object close-up: the postcard nudes looking like overripe cherubs, the town philosopher walking his black Great Dane, the chamber pots that our protagonists keep filling with pure water. One bit of this spoof is priceless: after some gorgeous but solemn footage of a French museum, Borowczyk has one of his characters distractedly walk right into the lap of a painted reclining nude...
...told, then, Gerald Ford was working under severe handicaps. Besides, he was an inept campaigner, prone to embarrassing mistakes and woefully unable to convince voters that he was truly "presidential." In retrospect, the narrowness of Carter's win was even more startling because it followed a masterly primary campaign in which he had outorganized and outworked nearly a dozen serious rivals and rocketed from obscurity to the nomination...
...know of any major campaign change I would make in retrospect in the campaign against Mr. Carter. I'm glad I challenged him to debate. I think if I had not done that, it would have been almost impossible to make up the 33 points we were behind...