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Napoleon is no documentary, no history lesson. Gance merely puts the man on the threshold of history and lets destiny take over. Yet, there is nothing mystical in what he films: Napoleon is simply the story of a man who knows what he wants and waits for it to come...
...limit for being oppressed without winning, and hence forfeited the right to complain. But if you're going to argue that, you'd better not say that Israel should exist as an independent Jewish state because of its historical ties to the piece of property it now inhabits. The threshold is hard to define. The Afrikaners have controlled South Africa for quite a while. Does that legitimize the pass system and the denial of suffrage to Blacks? The British ran America for close to 200 years, and yet we felt all right about kicking them...
...Empire's decline and the perplexing frustration of adapting to new modes of thought. Unfortunately, Rose is vapid. One cannot stir a tempest in a thimble. Davies' Rose is a teacher in a Midlands elementary school who is busily donning her New Woman persona on the threshold of middle age. She insists, perhaps understandably, on being called Ms. Strong, instead of Mrs. Fidgett. This flusters Headmistress Smale (Beverly May) and the older staff, as do her theories of education, which smack of the bankrupt experiments of the '60s. She has no use for learning by rote...
...with the People's Republic. But selling China offensive arms or entering into formal defense agreements with China would be an especially risky form of military competition with the U.S.S.R. The U.S. is already cooperating with the Chinese in gathering intelligence about Soviet military activity. To cross the threshold from that kind of defensive cooperation to arms sales would give the Sino-American relationship too much the cast of an anti-Soviet alliance. Such an alliance would be politically provocative without being militarily formidable-a highly undesirable combination. With or without U.S. assistance, the Chinese military will be extremely...
...historic meeting of the two men, each in his own way a symbol of freedom to the Polish people, was marked by its simplicity. Approaching the Pope at the threshold of the papal library, Walesa dropped to his knees, kissed the papal ring and bowed his head. A devout Catholic who tries to attend Mass daily, Walesa at first resisted when the Pope tried to lift him from his knees. John Paul then ushered the union leader into the library for a half-hour private chat. One presumed topic of their conversation: how to keep the itchier members of Walesa...