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The West prevailed because nuclear weapons imposed a brittle truce, shifting the conflict to the economic rivalry in which the West's greater resources and adaptability could produce both guns and butter, both family cars and aircraft carriers.
Which, if Culturebox was illustrating a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, was it: that these two extreme of contrarian critical opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.
Degas lived until 1917, when--blind, brittle, and beleaguered--he died at 82.
Songs like "Tango: Maureen"[LINK TO AUDIO CLIP]--glib, brittle dialogue at odds with the exotic tango rhythms--are a reminder of such early Sondheim works as "Barcelona."
If Culturebox were making a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, it would be this: that these two extremes of contrarian opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.