Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Singh, who is under mounting pressure to quit from dissidents within his own party, loses the vote of confidence this week, new elections could be called within a few months. The Prime Minister can point to accomplishments in foreign policy, including a peace settlement with Nepal, and such populist but expensive programs as debt relief to farmers and job guarantees for the poor. He can also emphasize his support for "secular" values opposed to what he calls the B.J.P.'s efforts to "lay the foundation stone of a theocratic state...
...economic deprivation that causes riots in the streets but rather a sense that the sanctions are gradually having effect, that they're not going to be loosened, that the international consensus in favor of them is strong. Then, projecting them out into the future, Saddam sees a point where they are going to affect his survival...
Many in Washington assumed Powell's insistence on that point was a hangover from the painful escalation of the Vietnam War, where he served two tours, but Powell denies it. "It's not so much my Vietnam experience as 32 years of military education and training," he says. "If you are going to commit the armed forces of the U.S. to a military operation that could involve conflict and loss of life, then do it right...
...also a movie to take seriously. If the essence of the western is riders on a ridgeline, surveying virgin countryside and reveling in their freedom to ride to a horizon unvexed by civilization, then it really does not make any difference if they are wearing feathers or Stetsons. The point has always been to remind us that open land shaped American history and character, and to make us ponder the cost of fencing off our former spaciousness and degrading the peoples who lived within...
...this information is vouchsafed remind us of '70s paranoid thrillers. Since the drug was given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife, we are reminded of Ghost (another effort by the same screenwriter, Bruce Joel Rubin), which one fervently hopes is not going to set the style for the '90s. In other words, director Adrian Lyne has encapsulated the cliches of three decades...