Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Espionage is the nominal subject, but there are few spine-tingling pleasures in James O. Jackson's grimly fascinating novel Dzerzhinsky Square. His goal is to depict, in the ruined life of one man, the privation, squalor, illogic and naked fear of everyday existence for Soviet citizens. Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief, hangs his narrative on the premise that Soviet soldiers who had fallen into Nazi hands thereby became "tainted" in the eyes of their government and, after the war, faced exile to Siberia or worse. He further suggests that U.S. authorities offered them new identities, enabling the soldiers...
...nonexistent Cuban underground that was only waiting for a signal of support to rise up and overthrow Fidel Castro. Reddin presents the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a dress rehearsal by America's best and brightest for their misjudgments in Viet Nam. Some of the funniest scenes depict the white-collar macho of bureaucrats who react to caution as a sign of deficient manhood. Reddin's cutting strokes are more often subtle, as in brief, oddly sympathetic glimpses of Castro and Richard Nixon. The central character is an eager, puppyish former Yalie tapped to train the invaders in communications. Peter...
...State of the Union address, the President will try to depict his budget plan as an exciting opportunity to liberate the forces of free enterprise from the shackles of Big Government. It is doubtful that many Congressmen will be moved. Already last week some legislators were pronouncing the Reagan budget "dead before arrival." Still, more realistic Hill leaders were aware that the President's budget cannot be dismissed out of hand, as it has been in the past. Congressional budget writers may differ on how to get there, but Gramm-Rudman requires that Congress and the White House arrive...
...ONLY VALID DIFFERENCE between this Godzilla and the past ones is the special effects used to depict the monster itself. We see Godzilla from a multitude of angles and destroying a multitude of objects, and it looks reasonably real--much more real than in the old movies in which an animated Godzilla struck down model airplanes and we knew...
...majority attempts to depict South Africa as a place where divestiture can "work," presumably in the sense of producing a more just and perhaps even democratic society there, and to depict the Soviet Union as a nation where U.S. economic pressure can do no good. But no hard facts support the positive effect of economic pressure on South Africa (indeed, the opposite may actually be true), whereas U.S. sanctions against the USSR have sometimes, albeit rarely, produced small positive results. The increased emigration of Jews in the late '70s under the pressure of the Jackson-Vanik amendment is only...