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...House staff that prides itself on its mastery of public relations and for a President who has shown great skill in the use of symbolic gestures, the task should have been fairly routine. Instead, a series of staff miscues and a lack of sensitivity by the President not only cast a pall over his German trip, they managed to stir up all the old wartime passions that Reagan had hoped to put to rest. As the furor over the Bitburg cemetery visit escalated for more than a week, he seemed unable to understand the emotions that he had aroused...
...easy. Success fueled exaggerated visions of a grand, institutionalized United Europe. There was talk of a common flag, of joint Olympic sports teams, but nationalism stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated military commands and closed...
...brief, little-known chamber composition, also by Wagner. The couples recline at the rear of the stage, the women cradled between the men's knees. A sixth couple, David Parsons and Cathy McCann, costumed in dazzling white, enter and dance a charming, fluid duet. In the end the whole cast is joined in serene repose...
...which he is involved. An aging comedian whose sight is failing wanders into a backdrop (he has also somehow lost his sense of direction) and, fearing the loss of his job, shoots himself. Apparently neither he nor anyone else in the show has ever heard of eyeglasses. The capable cast, led by an energized Ben Vereen, tries to distract the audience from the story's cheap tricks and absurdities. The frenzy only underscores the falseness...
...this third film in the Mad Max cycle had stopped there, it might have been some kind of low, visionary masterpiece. But "beyond Thunderdome" lies only preacherly anticlimax. Cast out into the wilderness for failing to live up to Barter-town's dog-eat-dog code, Max is rescued by a tribe of lost children as the savior their mythology has promised them. When the talk drags, he leads them on a crusade of the innocents against Aunty and her crowd...