Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago Tribune, self-styled the World's Greatest Newspaper told its readers that the week, stood for 20 years of United States intervention in Indochina. Americans were defending South Vietnamese refugees from Communists, bravely and properly but without much chance of success, since the South Vietnamese government unaccountably failed to fight for its own people. Some hostile commentator could easily have offered the Tribune another of the week's images for the last 20 years: Americans reading falsehoods about a far-off war while their government decided what to do about it. Some of the falsehoods had been reduced...
...State. He will remain a conduit for the various belligerents in the Middle East, negotiating among them quietly or in the more public forum at Geneva. He hopes to persuade the Russians to moderate the Arab demands, while he preaches restraint to both sides, and he may have some success...
...years ago that a young John Kennedy made his famous inaugural pledge: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Even then, that stirring pledge was unrealistic, as the nation was soon to learn in Indochina. But today such a commitment would be unthinkable, and not only because of the enormous social and economic costs it would entail. Slowly at first, then more rapidly, there has been an erosion...
...Metropolitan Museum's current show, "Francis Bacon: Recent Paintings 1968-1974," testifies to his success in that haughty project. When Bacon was first talked of in England 25 years ago, his images of ectoplastic businessmen and screaming Popes, based on such then unlikely-sounding sources as pioneer Cameraman Eadweard Muybridge's serial photographs of human and animal motion, a textbook on radiology, stills from Russian Director Sergei Eisenstein's movies, and an exquisitely colored handbook on diseases of the mouth, were seen as a Guignol of existential dread. Indeed, the scariness of Bacon prevented many people from...
...Duels. Logic - or perhaps clear thinking is the better phrase - is the key to the success of both pictures. One does not want to bear down too heavily on the point lest the fun go out of the watching; but the reason both films work so well is that Lester is satirizing not merely that outdated movie form, the heavily romanticized historical spectacle, but history itself. When Lester's people fall off horses or into mud puddles, scramble about trying to have a picnic on a battlement, or try to duel on an icy river where they cannot even...