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Things have happened at the NSC all right, but not always the kind that the President can savor. Last week, in the wake of revelations that the agency had been involved in the transfer of Iranian arms sales profits to the contras, Reagan appointed a three-member "special review board" to study the role of the NSC in the conduct of foreign policy. Named chairman was John Tower, the former Republican Senator from Texas and more recently a U.S. arms negotiator. The other review-board members are former Senator Edmund Muskie, a Democrat, and Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald...
...falls as the good father's newest acolyte, Mendoza insists on toting a heavyweight bag of arms, armor and other accoutrements of civilization. This junk boldly symbolizes the burden of his sins, and watching Mendoza struggle with it, we do not know whether to weep or laugh. But we savor this psychological ambiguity in a movie that is generally much more intent on mining a vague political message from a backwoods imperialist tragedy...
Remember the duck walk? Or did you savor the split that Michael J. Fox pulled off in the climactic scene of Back to the Future? In the 1950s dawn of rock, rubber-legged Chuck Berry was the man who made music strut 'n' roll. And so when Berry, creator of hits like Maybelline, Johnny B. Goode and Sweet Little Sixteen, turned 60 last week, the pop establishment came out to pay tribute to the grand, gyrating old man. Through two celebratory concerts for 9,000 fans at the Fox Theater in St. Louis, Berry, in a rhinestone, mustard- colored shirt...
When the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared an amnesty and released all political prisoners three weeks ago, leaders of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union movement were expected to savor their freedom while keeping out of the limelight. But diffidence has never been Solidarity's style, and last week union activists once again risked imprisonment by publicly challenging the regime...
...principle, a manic cross-fertilization. With Klimt, art became overtly decorative, gold-inlaid portraits masquerading as rich bijoux; with Hoffmann and his Wiener Werkstatte collaborator Koloman Moser, bowls and chairs aspired to art. It was a feverish, unresolved time, and the Viennese fin-de-siecle impulse was to savor the exquisitely confused cultural moment...