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...Reagan's foreign policy successes, his final years were overshadowed by scandal. He had become committed to finding a way to free American hostages held in Lebanon. In 1985 his National Security Adviser, Robert (Bud) McFarlane, oversaw a scheme in which Israel, as a stand-in for the U.S., would provide TOW antitank missiles to an Iranian arms dealer in exchange for help in obtaining the release of hostages. Did Reagan, who had repeatedly declared he would make no deals with Iran or terrorists, agree to this one? McFarlane later testified that he did. Reagan said he couldn't remember...
...also garnered support from the executive committee of the life sciences, which is acting this year as a stand-in for a divisional dean...
...most obvious stand-in for Hoge himself in Leland seems to be Pearl (Don Cheadle), a juvenile prison teacher who befriends the incarcerated Leland. When an interviewer asks which character Hoge related to most, the nearby Malone cracks a smile...
Really, the language issue is a stand-in for a bigger question. There have been other dark and complicated takes on the western--Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove--but they, like westerns themselves in recent years, have been as occasional as tumbleweeds. We still associate the genre with the moral simplicity and cliche of its heyday: straight-shooting, black and white hats. (When President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive," he wasn't going for relativism.) Are we ready for the genre of John Wayne...
...direct gaze typical of self-portraits. El Greco often put his adopted city, Toledo, in the background of his works. A blurred view of its fortified walls can be seen at the foot of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception (1608-1613), and he used it as a stand-in for Troy in Laocoön (early 1610s). (Laocoön and his sons were destroyed by snakes for suggesting that the wooden horse was not as innocent as it seemed...