Word: rousingness
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Meanwhile, producer Clavell and his team -- director-choreographer Michael Smuin, adapter-lyricist John Driver and composer Paul Chihara -- hacked away an hour of running time, primarily pageantry. A funeral procession was eliminated. A 3 1/2-minute ballad about the hero's adulterous love was compressed to 30 seconds. A formalized yet...
The intifada had all but fizzled out, the P.L.O. leadership had completely discredited itself in the eyes of the world by siding with Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf, and the American news media had found more important events to cover than Palestinian rabble rousing. By staging a violent display...
After a decade in exile, former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella made a rousing return last week, calling on the government to resign and urging citizens to support Iraq's Saddam Hussein. "Telephone the Iraqis, send telegrams and tell them you are with them," he said in an hour-long...
Eight years later, Bush still saw foreign policy as his ticket to the White House and the true measure of presidential achievement. After Michael Dukakis' rousing performance at the 1988 Democratic Convention, Bush was down 17 points in the polls. A rash of silly sloganeering and low blows ensued (remember...
But very soon the euphoria subsided and the outlook palled. From the very start there had been portents that had escaped the West German government's notice: a conspicuous absence of rousing meetings in the streets of Frankfurt and Cologne, a strange lack of passion, a suspicion of second thoughts...