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Critics argue that the case against a generous arms sale policy is as compelling as the one for it. The most vivid example of the limitations of weaponry to win friends and influence countries is Iran: after $10 billion of arms deliveries, the Shah was deposed and replaced by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's violently anti-American regime. The occasional success that the Soviets and Americans have had in wooing each other's clients proves that the influence secured by sales can be less than lasting. As Andrew Pierre puts it: "Longterm weapons are sold to what may be short-term...
France's catalogue is not as lavish as Britain's, but its descriptions (in French, English and Spanish) are more vivid militarily and, in general, less polite. One piece of howitzer ammunition is touted as having "a better ballistic coefficient than the American shell," and a 30-mm aircraft round is "very effective against persons." A 22-lb. French "Commando" mortar is perfect for those times when combat squads "have to fight violently at very short distances." The brief entries tend to a breathless specificity. A smoke bomb lets a tank "escape temporarily from the adversary...
...really remembers when Lowell last won, but the 1980 campaign is still a vivid nightmare. In five games, opporients scored 126 points to the Bellboys' doughnut. No one kept too many statistics, but one veteran puts it this way: "I'd say the big goal this season is to get a first down and force the other team to punt...
Pontrelli recalls, "A lot of the players were new and a lot of guys got really beaten up. I'm surprised so many came back." The law student-to-be does not exaggerate; one of the most vivid memories of the fall was a sorry troupe of bandaged athletes limping through the endless dining hall line for more halibut cheese casserole...
...cinematographer Freddie Francis work together to create the two very different settings. Filmed in the seaside town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, the 19th-century backgrounds are impossibly green fields, lush forests, and dark, crashing waves. The music supports the imagery, strings welling up in the background to suit this vivid and strikingly visual interpretation of every Victorian novel ever written. The blacks are black and the whites white in this world of sin and expiation where the characters care deeply about the conventions they transgress. Today's world, in contrast, appears in crisp, colorless light, everything modern and vaguely...