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...State threatened a suspension of U.S. military and economic aid if Israel launched a final assault on West Beirut. Later, both the State Department and the White House denied that report, insisting that Haig had only warned against an assault in general terms. The conflicting reports appeared to mirror a split not only among Reagan's advisers but in the President's own views. He is torn between instinctive sympathy for Israel and increasing shock at the civilian casualties and worldwide alarm caused by Israel's invasion of Lebanon...
...feeling and shock of knowledge. Finally it all comes to this: that women, after years?after centuries?are stepping through Virginia Woolf's looking glass. The measure of all the change and growth of the past decade is that women, finally, are coming out the other side of the mirror. The limit is that they have not shattered the glass. Not yet. And yet. ?By Jay Cocks. Reported by Anne Constable/Atlanta, Ruth Mehrtens Calvin/Boston and Janice C. Simpson/New York
Usually, it is only from the safety of retrospect and an established self that we entertain ourselves with visions of an alternative life. The daydreams are an amusement, a release from the monotony of what we are, from the life sentence of the mirror. The imagination's pageant of an alternative self is a kind of vacation from one's fate. Kierkegaard did not really mean he should have been a police spy, or Nixon that he should have been a sportswriter. The whole mechanism of daydreams of the antiself usually depends upon the fantasy remaining fantasy. Hell...
...social and psychological resonances that sound long after this remarkable book is closed. A few are comic, like James Thurber's If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox, a portrait of the crocked general handing over his sword to an astonished Lee. In two cases, stories provide a mirror effect. Isaac Babel's The Death of Dolgushov concerns the inability of men fully to apprehend the griefs and atrocities of battle; Doris Lessing's Homage for Isaac Babel is about the inability of children to comprehend the depths and subtleties of Babel's deceptively plain fictions...
...theater showed a coming attraction for Rocky III. The screen darkened, the familiar trumpets blared, and then the title appeared, one enormous letter after another. With each successive letter the audience's hissing grew a little louder. By the time Sylvester Stallone appeared, eyeing himself in a mirror, flexing his pectorals, the audience's laughter-almost drowned out his eloquent if terse exclamation: "Nothing is real if you don't believe in yourself?" There's a lot to be said for coming attractions...