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After the attack, the Administration seemed as eager to blame Iran as it was to forgive Iraq. Reagan called Iran the "villain in the piece." While the Iranians were not directly involved in the incident, they have upped the stakes in the gulf war in recent months by installing Chinese-made Silkworm missiles near the Strait of Hormuz. Last week the Iranian government gloated over the Stark catastrophe. "The great Satan is trapped," exulted Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi. "The Persian Gulf is not a safe place for the superpowers, and it is not in their interest to enter...
...going to do what has to be done to keep the Persian Gulf open," Reagan said. "It's international waters. No country there has a right to try and close it off and take it for itself. And the villain in the piece really is Iran. And so they're delighted with what has just happened...
...pressing national policy issue is whatexplains the decline of U.S. competitivenessabroad and the declineing rate of U.S.productivity growth. A common villain in thisdiscussion is the taxation of corporate capital,and Larry has done a great deal of workunderstanding [this villain]," Poterba said
...Government was the villain of the Reagan cycle of American history, the bete noire of the new may be Big Business. In 1979, according to the pollster Lou Harris, 69% of Americans gave corporate America a favorable rating. In 1986 only 35% rated corporate America favorably. "Clearly," says Harris, "the mood about business has turned negative on a massive scale...
...next: opening the floor to send up a concealed bedroom or judging stand; filling the midnight sky with stars that sketch a celestial madonna in a surge of unexamined theological kitsch. Against this whizbangery, the actors make scant impression, although Robert Torti is an oily villain and Greg Mowry a winsome underdog. Andrew Lloyd Webber's pastiche of American pop offers histrionic passages but no memorable tunes. Worse, the races -- the core of the plot -- look contrived. When one "engine" passes another, no burst of athletic elan justifies the triumph; sometimes the jockeying for position takes place out of view...