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...visited Beijing under a storm cloud of criticism from the Chinese, who accused the U.S. of interfering in their internal affairs by demanding human-rights improvements in order to continue granting China most-favored-nation trade status. And no sooner had Christopher returned home than North Korea resumed its stubborn cat-and-mouse game over nuclear inspection...
Most American parents would probably not be satisfied in letting their children face the same pressures and dangers as my friend, for the sole purpose of maintaining a stubborn front of intransigence for their country. And neither would Israeli parents. Israelis wish as much as anything to be allowed to exist as a normal, demilitarized society...
...ethos--equal parts intellectual snobbery and earnest aesthetic evangelism--is personified by Vlada K. Petric, senior VES lecturer and curator of the archive. Petric, a white-haired man with watery blue eyes and a broad, stubborn face, works in a small office plastered with magazine clippings and film stills. He pontificates passionately in heavily accented English, and does not permit interruptions. Petric draws a distinction between "cinema," which he calls "a means of artistic expression," and "artsy films"--"Schindler's List" or "Remains of the Day," for example--which have "nothing to do with art." Then of course, there...
...large on the walls of the gallery) is actually very helpful. They provide a very specific context for the objects, and without them it might be more difficult to prove, as it seems is the intention of the show, that the objects don't really fit, that objects are stubborn in their multivalency...
...billion in destroyed property. Last summer brush fires devoured nearly 1,000 homes in some of the richest enclaves in America. All the while the re- engineering of America's post-cold war economy drained California of 202,000 aerospace jobs, plunging the state into the country's most stubborn recession and lifting unemployment up near 10%. During his three years in office, Governor Wilson has issued 27 declarations of emergency covering 56 of the state's 58 counties. "I want to thank you for all the help you gave me to become Governor," he wryly tells his political supporters...