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...star presence is Stacy Keach, who plays four members of the Rowen family, from a ruthless homesteader before the Revolution to an alcoholic official of a withered union in the Nixon era. The first Rowen is the overarching presence, a character of macho force, demonic glee and utmost energy -- so awe-inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord...
...presidency are also missing the point. Public exposure of any kind is good for democracy. If Larry King isn't exactly the most qualified moderator, at least a debate on the substance of NAFTA is taking place. It wasn't so long ago that national policy was made in utmost secrecy. A well lit studio may not seem like progress, but it beats the hell out of a smoke-filled room...
...this is due to the artist's prolonged success in the marketplace; Lichtenstein is a very prolific artist, and his works are in most museums. But their effect has spread far beyond the originals. His images, coming initially out of mass reproduction itself, slide back into it with the utmost ease and have done so for the past 30 years, filling memory with tiny Lichtenstein clones...
There is a similar Western softening on NATO enlargement. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe calls it "premature," and liberals who formerly advocated expansion are having second thoughts. "I can only advise utmost caution when thinking about moving NATO eastward," says former German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "We should not exclude Russia." Among the few remaining advocates of early enlargement are the hapless Central European countries with better reasons than Russia to fear for their security. Yeltsin's flip-flop caused acute anxiety in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest. "Poland's striving toward NATO is irreversible," said Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski...
...should not necessarily sub ordinate environmental concerns to economic issues, ecological issues should not be an impediment to this important agreement. Any environmental impact statement filed before the treaty is signed is necessarily speculative. If the administration's appeal is unsuccessful, then the impact statement most be done with utmost speed...