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...Connection. Readers who would like more detail could do worse than begin with the 39 mini-essays in the book. Sagan's purpose is nothing less than to refocus man's perspective about his place in the chain of being. Astronauts' bootprints left on the moon stir his imagination like "contemporary ziggurats," places "where the gods came down to earth and the population as a whole transcended everyday life." For him, the U.S. space program is justified simply because it irreversibly thrust us into interplanetary travel. "In all the history of mankind," Sagan writes, "there will...
...began, the Watergate wiretapping was widely regarded as a mysterious political operation, its origins unknown and its seriousness unappreciated. Candidate George McGovern had been unable to stir much interest in it as a campaign issue. Except for dogged digging by a small segment of the U.S. press, most notably the Washington Post and TIME, the entire matter might have faded from public view...
This isn't a movie, it's a recipe. The people who put The Sting together followed the instructions on the Butch Cassidy package: one Paul Newman, one Robert Redford, a dash of caper. Stir in the same director, if available...
Shop on Main Street, by Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, was the first Czechoslovak film to create a bit stir in the United States. The warm reception it received in 1965 helped lead to the Museum of Modern Art's major festival of Czechoslovak films in 1967. Shop on Main street takes place in German-occupied Slovakia in 1942. A tragic story of a shopkeeper unable to fight German antisemitism. it is nevertheless, at times, whimsical and sentimental...
...embassy in Saigon both impressed on me, the only laws that the United States respects in Vietnam are the gun and the piaster. Wars that cannot be won on the battlefield can be dragged on a minimal cost. Thieu may last for another eight years if he can stir up enough support from the right-wing chauvinists, Jean Lacouture, a French scholar and journalist, said...