Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former senator, who served eight years on the Senate intelligence committee, charged that the U.S. had bungled its policy towards Russia after the end of the Cold War...
...also aims at defusing the appeal of the Republican candidate whose biography stands in sharpest contrast to Bush's. More than half of Senator John McCain's bio ad details his horrific experience as a Vietnam prisoner of war. There are black-and-white photos of the angry mob that dragged the downed Navy pilot off to 5 1/2 years in prison. There is no reference to policies or programs, only an assertion that McCain has been "taking on the Establishment and defying special interests and never forgetting those heroes with whom he served." (A neat way of referencing heroism...
...ENDLESS WAR AGAINST SADDAM...
James Bond films--the first of which, Dr. No, premiered in 1962--were well-suited to the Cold War's ideological fervor. It must have been great fun to watch Bond outwit and outclass hapless Commies. World is the third Bond film since the end of the Cold War and, while its Russophobia is still pronounced, the conflict has lost most of its prior urgency. Avarice and vainglory have replaced zealous patriotism as the cardinal passions of Bond's adversaries...
Despite its minor flaws, however, World is a fine film. With any luck, it will ensure that another generation of young men are educated in the Bond tradition--sans Cold War, sans original plots, sans homely women, sans everything...