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Plainly, the week's events have complicated the already grave dilemmas that confront all the principals in the Middle East crisis...
...think they can turn to me and say I don't know what's going on or I'm a draft dodger." Referring to the House Armed Services Committee, chaired by L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), Kerry said, "I want to go down to Washington and confront Medel Rivers, who never fought...
...film's intimate moments are divested of their sentimental privilege, leaving the characters nearly barren existences: but they are confronting those existences. We confront them constantly: and this generates a strange sense of time and event, which we usually regard as hopeful and progressive. Toward the end, a remarkable tracking shot holds Willie, running quickly through rocky foothills, constant in the frame. He is not running to escape somebody: he is simply running, that is his condition. He has willed it so. He knows that his effort will not generate the impetus to take him out of that condition...
...their time becomes much more abstract and less necessary: emotions cease to follow the qualities of a particular place and become more purely the property of the characters. History and myth, with their conventional outlook on people's situations, are also devalued, and the characters, like us, left to confront the actualities of their situation...
...fact, for all the talk of "new challenges," youth appears to confront the same choices faced by every generation-to drop out, cop out, or become involved...