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...nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster, yet spurred on again and again by the enlightening force of hope. Forever chasing some distant ideal, following some foolish dream, Bip unabashedly exposes yearnings in ourselves which perhaps we try to hide behind a shield of cynicism. Marceau says of Bip, now more than a quarter of a century old, "I see him before me, fully matured, winking his eye at me near that ancient street lamp, no longer just an active witness, but a true personification of the great passion of men on earth...
...Internal Revenue Service originally miss errors of nearly half a million dollars in a taxpayer's returns over a four-year period-especially when the filer is as uniquely noticeable as the President of the United States? The embarrassed officials of the IRS have a handy shield against discussing such a gross oversight: the law that bans revelations about any taxpayer's situation unless court action is taken. But the conclusion is inescapable that Nixon benefited from his high office and that the IRS would never have moved to recover the tax loss if there had not been...
There was an almost novelistic quality to the timing of Pompidou's demise. It came two days before the 25th anniversary of NATO, which Pompidou, like Charles de Gaulle before him, had used as both a military shield and a political foil. His death came shortly before the anniversary of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's grandiose call for a Year of Europe; that the year proved to be something less than what the Nixon Administration expected could be counted as a triumph for Gaullist foreign policy. There was no little irony in the fact that when...
...persuasive reason to reconsider his analysis. As he was riding in a cab near Buckingham Palace, a white British Ford in front of him veered to the left, forcing a maroon Austin Princess limousine to a halt. On top of the limousine, visible from front and rear, was a shield displaying the royal coat of arms. Inside were Princess Anne and her husband of four months, Captain Mark Phillips...
...close to self-fulfillment. She realizes that perhaps it is possible to infuse creativity into her roles, a creativity balanced between Flaminio's self-consuming and haphazard improvisation and Francesco's constricting memorization. She realizes that her talents have been developed as self-protection, not self-expression, as a shield against her naturally unbounded generosity, a self-destructive and explosive emotion which often vented itself in endless hours of duck-like squawking. But the best she can do, speaking from the wrong side of the heavenly gates, is whisper her confession into another actor's dreams, unnecessarily burdening...