Word: retrospective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Better to wait through the next three movies, or six, or 10, and see whether the "magic" lasts in retrospect. If it runs deep enough to endure, then it is not to be pinned down...
...overdose of sleeping pills and cocaine-pointed up the standard celebrity moral of too much work, too many indulgences, too little time. For those moviegoers who had seen the Bavarian-born director at film festivals or spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very model of a pestilential dandy, a sure bet for early burnout...
NINTH: The gravest risk in this crisis was not that either head of government desired to initiate a major escalation but that events would produce actions, reactions or miscalculations carrying the conflict beyond the control of one or the other or both. In retrospect we are inclined to think that both men would have taken every possible step to prevent such a result, but at the time no one near the top of either government could have that certainty about the other side. In any crisis involving the superpowers, firm control by the heads of both governments is essential...
...bipartisan majority bit the bullet," said an exultant Ronald Reagan a few minutes after the votes were counted. Continuing his remarkable streak of legislative victories, the President had deftly corralled enough Congressmen of both parties into approving a contradictory but much needed correction to his economic policies. In retrospect, the 226-to-207 victory was hardly surprising: the President has made such miracles seem commonplace. What was out of the ordinary was the nature of the triumph. Reagan, who had come to Washington preaching a gos pel of tax cuts, had wrested from an election-edgy Congress a huge...
Usually, it is only from the safety of retrospect and an established self that we entertain ourselves with visions of an alternative life. The daydreams are an amusement, a release from the monotony of what we are, from the life sentence of the mirror. The imagination's pageant of an alternative self is a kind of vacation from one's fate. Kierkegaard did not really mean he should have been a police spy, or Nixon that he should have been a sportswriter. The whole mechanism of daydreams of the antiself usually depends upon the fantasy remaining fantasy. Hell...