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...with opulently choreographed dream sequences that stopped just this side of camp. The characters, however rueful or ruthless, were also insatiably idealistic. They actually believed the words of the period's popular songs-so much so that they lip-synced the lyrics to the recordings, and their sad, drab lives dissolved into the art deco optimism of Hollywood musicals...
...first meeting with Westerners since assuming the party leadership, Jaruzelski promised resolute action during a 45-min. discussion with a group of TIME editors and businessmen. Dressed in an olive-drab uniform, and wearing the dark-tinted glasses he needs because of a chronic eye inflammation, Jaruzelski joked briefly about the fact that he was First Secretary of the party, Premier, Defense Minister and general of the army, but received "only one salary-and much smaller than that of the President...
...California that Cain funy explored this theme. In California, he found a society so new, so unstable that he didn't need floods or coal mines to bring two people passionately together. As he told Hoopes, "Any piece of California, no matter how drab, prosaic, or dull, is California just the same, the land of Golden Promise." Unlike the staid, conservative East, where the wealthy stayed wealthy and the poor stayed poor, the West had become a land of overnight wealth, of rags to riches, with nobody excluded from the chase. Many characters are willing to risk anything to find...
...their worship, the droning incantations from the loudspeakers on the minarets are momentarily drowned out by the roar of two camouflaged MiG-21s streaking toward targets upcountry. Outside, a truck goes by with two Soviet soldiers in the back. They wear wide-brimmed khaki ranger hats and olive-drab bulletproof vests, and they hold their Kalashnikov assault rifles at the ready, barrels upright, on their knees...
...artist would best execute the commission: the late Norman Rockwell. The President's dreams for the future seem almost wholly derived from a sweeter, simpler, stout-hearted past. During his televised plea for a second wave of budget cuts last month, he seemed eager to finish with the drab statistics and demands for sacrifice, and get to the part where his idealism could shine...