Word: successful
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...both financial aid and support for reforms in the two countries, underscoring that the European Community is increasingly more able and eager to help guide potential changes in the Communist bloc. "Leadership in Europe on these questions belongs to the E.C., both by right and by their record of success," said investment banker Robert Hormats, a former top State Department official...
...decline of Washington's influence over Western Europe, on the other hand, has been the gradual and inevitable result of its great postwar success. America's involvement in Europe was a welcome response to Soviet aggressiveness, not the cause of it. By helping rebuild its allies, the U.S. proved the strengths of its economic and political systems. Learning to deal with the robust partners that resulted has been a fitful process but a healthy one. The result is that now, as the cold war thaws, the U.S. can feel comfortable sharing with its allies the responsibilities, and financial burdens...
...would seem difficult to root for the success of such an unpleasant character, but Casey artfully provides good reasons for doing so. Pierce's "swamp Yankee" pride is based on a fierce, if sometimes obnoxious, integrity. He does not ask for anything except the chance to make a decent living at what he knows best. The world needs seafood, and Pierce has learned through long experience how to find and catch it. He is, in fact, an archetypal figure in American literature, the little guy at odds with big institutions, battling the triumph of newfangled shoddiness over old traditions...
...each of his films, Lee stirs the social pot. His first success, She's Gotta Have It, in 1986, explored sexual stereotypes with the tale of a liberated young black woman who refuses to give up her three lovers. School Daze, Lee's 1988 musical, examines the tensions between light- and darker- skinned blacks on an all-black college campus; it evoked the ire of some blacks, who charged him with airing the race's dirty laundry in public. With Do the Right Thing, Lee has produced his most provocative film...
...twelve-speed Peugeot bicycle (he doesn't have a driver's license) and considers a relaxing evening "going to a Knicks game, where the Knicks are winning in a nail biter, and I have two seats on the floor." If Do the Right Thing is a financial success, Lee will be playing in another league. Future movies will bring bigger budgets, probably accompanied by pressure for more control from the big studios anxious to protect their investments. Independence may be harder to retain. "Then the fights will come," says the director. Spike Lee is ready...