Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...life of the Cuban capital as Fidel Castro's revolutionaries prepared to take it in the waning days of 1958, he also recaptures something of the doomy delirium of the film that obviously inspired him. And some of its smartness too: the dialogue -- especially that of its resident cynic, its Captain Renault (Alan Arkin playing a casino owner) -- is polished to a high sheen...
...harder for a traveler in the Soviet Union to find someone who has anything good to say about Mikhail Gorbachev than it was for Diogenes the Cynic, in his wanderings through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, to find an honest man. Gorbachev's unpopularity can be understood only as part of what is happening to the country as a whole, no matter who tries to govern from the Kremlin...
...only reluctantly in 1988, when Congress, fed up with Pentagon foot-dragging, designated the Defense Department as the lead agency for "detection and monitoring" of drug smuggling. Now with the Soviet threat receding and Congress calling for defense cuts, the Pentagon welcomes any new mission. Says a Capitol Hill cynic: "The military sneered at drug interdiction -- until they saw the budget crunch coming...