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...mathematical axiom that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow it up to the size of the Loeb mainstage, add reddish lights and a crescent moon, choreograph it for 30 people in black lectards, and what have you got? Nothing, Nothing...
...Year of Living Dangerously makes no such claims, and therein lies its appeal. Weir's film doesn't provide all the answers. It only throws these problems out on the table, as if attempting to scratch somewhere beyond the too-easy conflicts of the political arena. The result is crude, very unpolished, but in its own way perhaps the most honest piece of work one can expect from Hollywood on the immense human problems of the Third World...
...legend of the man is safely sheltered these days behind high fences of respect. Were the real Washington on hand today, that might not be the case, and therein may lie a lesson. We have in this nation erected standards for our public people that dim anyone's glow if he or she falls short of perfection. It is reasonable, then, to wonder if people can enter public life and make a difference as they did in the first years of the Republic. Even as our expectations have grown, our respect for and sympathy with Presidents have diminished...
...five years as a social worker for a computer-science degree. I never imagined this field would be so challenging, exciting and people oriented. If society is just beginning to discover what the computer can accomplish in the future, then we are riding on the crest of a revolution. Therein lies the thrill of belonging to this generation...
...Therein lies the irony of the Brezhnev legacy: all of the Soviet Union's gigantic military might has not proved sufficient to convince its leaders that they can depend on enjoying either domestic tranquillity or genuine security along the country's borders, even those it shares with Communist neighbors. On the contrary, insofar as the military sector has drained off resources from the civilian economy, the U.S.S.R.'s war machine has weakened the country. According to some reports, a number of party officials and theoreticians have even begun asking whether, as a result, their country ought to shift its concept...