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This idea, of course, was not new to the Soviets--after all, they paid attention to what the Republican Party was doing. But I had thought of a twist. I would frame the propaganda in the form of a mini-series, cast some good-looking actors, and give it a glossy look. It would be of such high quality and so entertaining in its own right that the masses would never imagine that they were being deceived...
...secrets melodrama, a French philosophical play or an English drawing-room comedy. So he tosses elements of all these genres into his pot, and serves up the dramatic equivalent of broccoli cheese pasta--limp, stringy, with an occasional lumpy mass that may once have been a theme or plot twist now rendered unrecognizable by incompetent writing. Sweettable is talking-head drama of the worst sort, in which portentous declamations about the feel of people's thighs, memories of blue centaurs, the lips of doom and similar psycho-symbolic claptrap gets tossed willy-nilly at a justifiably mystified audience...
...players have it all over the baseballs. The major leaguers stretch and twist and run under a warm sun, but the baseball's lot is to enter the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co.'s "torture chamber...
...more important element of the package, in the long run, is a proposal that would help the White House twist arms more effectively when dealing with foreign competition. The Administration suggests that the entire trading relationship between the U.S. and any alleged offending country be a factor in considering retaliation for any unfair trading practices. That would allow the Administration formally to take into account any U.S. trade deficit or surplus with each country, as well as the openness of both national marketplaces to similar export products. Theoretically, Washington could then impose tariffs or trade quotas on those that have...
...desegregate all public schools and the Voting Rights Act of 1964. Black mayors now govern Washington, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia, and there are now more than 6,400 black officeholders where there were only a handful a generation ago. Paradoxically, these limited but real successes bring a new twist to racism. "We have more hatred now," says Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "because we've entered a new era, an , era of competition for jobs, attention, power. Now we are the people who may get your job, who may be living next to you, who may ask your...