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...recent changes in world monetary and trade policies meant that "we stand today at a turning point in the history of our country-and the history of our planet." He still falls into clicheé. "Surveying the certainty of rapid change," he declared, "we can be like a fallen rider caught in the stirrups-or we can sit high in the saddle, the masters of change, directing it in a course that we choose...
...CUTS. Passage of the tax-reduction bill-a keystone of Phase II-was anticlimactic, since the major obstacle had been removed two weeks ago. In its original form, the bill contained a Democratic-sponsored rider to allow each taxpayer to check off $1 of his taxes for a presidential campaign fund, thus creating a $20 million reservoir for each party's candidate next year. But when the President threatened to veto the bill, the Democrats backed down. As signed by the President last week, the law will reinstate the 7% tax credit for industrial investment on equipment, raise...
...second part of the film begins as the rider abandons his son for the woman, who demands, as a condition of her love, that he show himself to be the greatest man by killing the Four Great Masters of the Desert. He calls her Mara, which, he says, is what the Israelites called the bitter water they found in the desert. (Mara is also the name of the tempter of the Buddha.) She, along with every other woman in the movie, is portrayed as evil; all are vain, selfish, deceitful. There is only one exception, a midget, who is childish...
...hero who becomes noble after the first half of the movie. The Four Masters are exemplary of the great-and-noble man: the first is a Hindu who concentrates so that bullets pass through him: the second is far faster and more accurate with his gun than the rider; the next is a faster sharp-shooter who has hundreds of pet rabbits (all of which we get to see die, of course); the last is an old man who uses a butterfly net instead of a gun to shoot back any bullets fired at him. The rider beats the first...
...rider becomes the penitent, shaves his head and commits himself to the task of digging a tunnel out of the cave. Because he is bigger and stronger than all the prisoners, he can climb out of the cave. With the dwarf women who took care of him on his back, he goes into the town to collect money by begging for supplies to dig the tunnel. The town is an exaggerated stereotype of a Hollywood Western town; boorish, fat old women in 1890's dresses, who ooh and aah as they watch two men kill each other; black slaves branded...