Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grown so small. We all know about corporate downsizing, but who would have thought that in the '90s, everything else would get downsized too? The country is so short on big things--heroes, villains, conflicts--that we've had to inflate little things and pretend they're big. Our statesmen used to revile Hitler, Mussolini, the godless Reds--large and sinister enemies who wanted to take over the world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they do produce a legal product that...
...uses old film footage to fine effect--for example, juxtaposing a scene of a very stoned Neil Young & Crazy Horse circa '76 (bearing an eerie resemblance to the guys from This is Spinal Tap) burning flowers in a Parisian hotel room with clips of the band today as elder statesmen of rock: men with a past that resonates in their music...
...provoke skepticism, turns out to be a fine idea; the women who play the Thanes of Ross and Lennox--Erin Billings '00, in a strong supporting turn, and Mary Pagones, respectively--are, like Voros's Banquo, stolid, sober figures who maintain the dignity and slight aloofness which characterize the statesmen. Dressed in identical black man-tailored suits, the thanes move through the play like almost interchangeable cogs in a state machine; Voros's more personal characterization of Banquo is what makes the character so much missed. Andres Ramos-Nolasco '99 plays a rather flat Duncan, and Noah Feinstein '99 appears...
DAVID RUBINGER has been a TIME photographer in Israel for nearly a half-century, covering major wars (and not a few small ones) and documenting the lives of statesmen and ordinary citizens. Next week the Israeli government will honor his work with its prestigious Israel Prize for lifetime achievement. Perhaps his most memorable photograph is one of young Israeli paratroopers at Jerusalem's Western Wall in 1967, just minutes after fighting had ceased. It quickly became an emblem of Israel's stunning victory...
Congratulations on your inspiring cover story on Deng Xiaoping, the heroic Chinese leader whose vision, guts, iron will and economic reforms helped modernize his country and ensure Asia-Pacific progress [THE NEXT CHINA, March 3]. History will remember Deng along with Emperor Shih Huang-Ti and Mao Zedong, statesmen whose human flaws should not detract from their many far-reaching achievements. Deng's success in reforming China has as its legacy Asian prosperity, free enterprise, peace and stability. WILSON Y. LEE FLORES Quezon City, the Philippines...