Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tells the audience frankly "The '70s are just the garbage of the '60s," she makes a strong and often-ignored point--as do all the actors, individually and collectively As the 20th anniversary of Kennedy's death approaches, revisionists give idealistic accounts of his place in history, and the turmoil his death ushered in is often ignored or manipulated to answer the hypothetical "what ifs" that accompany the Kennedy myth. In a performance both moving and unsettling, the actors and actresses in Kennedy's Children answer some of the questions of what is all really meant, and they ask some...
...father is in heaven and all the birds have flown away." Afterward, standing in the chilly rain at a nearby airbase, Reagan tried to explain the sacrifice. "We commit our resources and risk the lives of those in our armed forces to rescue others from bloodshed and turmoil and to prevent humankind from drowning in a sea of tyranny," he said. "The world looks to America for leadership, and America looks to the men in its armed forces...
Perhaps the most important factor was the instinctive tendency of Americans to rally behind the presidency in times of international turmoil. In addition, Reagan was aided by the successful outcome of the Grenadian operation. The U.S. medical students who were evacuated from the island loudly expressed their gratitude, and the White House plans to hold a ceremony with a number of them this week to hammer home the point. The evidence Reagan was able to reveal about a planned Cuban-Soviet buildup on that minuscule island provided, albeit after the fact, additional justification for the American action. Although the hazardous...
Three performances particularly stand out: James Houghton as Brick. Hannah Cox as Maggie, and Jon King as Big Daddy. Each one-envelops his character, letting the lines prompt his actions and reveal his own particular inner turmoil: Houghton's Brick, who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character...
...American citizens on Grenada been hostages of the new regime, the United States could have justified a rescue mission. But by all accounts-and admittedly, there are not many, because Washington made Grenada off-limits to the press-U.S. citizens on the island, though in the middle of turmoil any coup necessarily creates, were not being directly threatened by the regime, nor were they hostages. The invasion, a violation of several international treaties that this country allegedly adheres to, indicates that preemptive military operations are acceptable. As long as the possibility for an unwanted situation involving American citizens exists...