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...used as an instrument of international politics. Plato wrote that an ideal Greek state "should send as many athletes as possible to the Games, and the best that can be found, for they will make the city renowned at holy meetings in times of peace, procuring a glory which shall be a counterpart to that which is gained in war; and when they come home, they shall teach the young that the institutions of other states are second-rate when compared to their...
Williams has been the best Miss America in my memory. In her appearances throughout the country, she has conducted herself with grace and dignity. I shall always consider her Miss America, regardless of the actions of a few narrow-minded people in Atlantic City...
...possibly rather feckless, prickly character present themselves. He seems to have been solitary and misanthropic, though with flashes of antic gaiety: "A good friend but a difficult one," the dealer Edme-François Gersaint unhelpfully put it. Naturally one would like to know more; probably we never shall...
...subversive. What more could anyone ask for? It begins with the 16th century geological musings of Martin Luther: "Longer ago than 6,000 years the world did not exist." It hurtles downhill from there toward outright insolence. Did Abraham Lincoln really say in 1859, "Negro equality! Fudge! How long . . . shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to quip, so low a piece of demagogism as this"? Did the U.S. Labor Department truly announce that 1930 would be "a splendid employment year...
...Eddie Murphy is demonstrating a dubiously designed tank to dubiously inclined Arab buyers. The West is California, two years earlier, where Dudley Moore plays an engineer who gets into trouble by failing to give his undivided attention to making Eddie's lemon grow. And, yes, never the twain shall meet. But the poet's point is a poor comic premise. Though Best Defense provides both stars a few funny moments and offers some promising satirical ideas, its binary construction imposes a fatal jumpiness on it. Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who co-wrote American Graffiti and Indiana Jones...