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...first squeal in rushed the private detective you had kept in the background." This is a direct reference to the problems of censorship and suppression that had swarmed around The Rainbow (1915) and Women in Love (1920). Lawrence here and throughout this long fragment seems more interested in the teller than the tale...
Maggie, whose theme song is Never on Sunday, is keeper of the mike, passing it around, encouraging the people sitting beyond the spotlight. "Sing! Sing! You can do it!" Maggie is a head bank teller and has a daughter entering medical school, but she still says, "If Margaret wasn't here, I'd never come in. If you are raised in the South, you don't walk into a bar alone-you just wouldn't be a lady in my mother's opinion." Margaret's bar is not a pickup place...
...classic American style of moviemaking, unselfconscious and objective: he trusts the tale, not the teller. And he trusts his actors as well. As Geoffrey, Albert Finney staggers toward his doom on feet unsteadied not so much by booze as by the weight of the cross he bears, a compound of tormented memory and suffering intelligence. There is in his presence a nobility that elicits compassion along with admiration for the actor's work. Jacqueine Bisset and Anthony Andrews tread similarly delicate lines as Yvonne and Hugh, trying to cling to their dreams despite the rude, awakening noises of Geoffrey...
...idea had been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that...
...case against Star Wars rests on a cluster of mutually reinforcing arguments. Strictly on technical grounds, experts all across the ideological spectrum doubt that space-based ray guns would work well enough to vindicate Reagan's vision. To provide the sort of blanket protection the President and Teller originally had in mind, the system would have to offer a 100% guarantee (an untested guarantee at that) of intercepting and disarming an entire huge barrage of Soviet warheads. If even a tiny percentage of the warheads "leaked" through, the devastation in the U.S. would be horrendous, and the American leadership...