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YOU'VE GOT TO forgive a lot. Stallone, perfect as Rocky, here turns in an unconvincing performance at best. No midgets were assigned to play opposite him this time around, and he comes up looking awfully short; both Peter Boyle (his corrupt predecessor as F.I.S.T. president) and Brian Dennehy (the...
THROUGH WHAT he says in these essays Gardner is identifying himself with a long tradition of critics like Matthew Arnold who tried to diagnose the ills of their societies. And Gardner's calls for "Beauty, Truth and Goodness" are not far removed from Arnold's famous celebration of "sweetness and...
NO GRAND RHETORICAL pronouncements. No simple enemies to hate, such as white people in general. "We're no longer talking in the narrow, nationalist terms of the late '60s," the big man, Grantland Johnson, says. "We've attempted to build this movement in a multi-racial manner, because it's...
All in all, Mr. Emmerich's rhetorical style lacks the coherence and continuity necessary in formulating a credible and forceful critique of "sociobiology" or of delving into the spirituality and political inclinations of Professor Irven DeVore.
With the purge of the "gang of four" in 1976, the military returned to the center of politics, and public opinion began to emerge as an "institutional force," Terrill said. "There was a snapping of certain rhetorical myths and a concretization of wishes for a better standard of living in...