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The first was Iran, and the second, Syria, a country with which Israel is poised to embark on peace talks.
But the film has the soul of a guidance counselor, and whenever it seems poised to go where no commercial American picture has gone before--to a place where our responses are gummed up, where we can grasp simultaneously the horror and the allure of the white supremacist movement--it snaps back into easy moralizing, demonization, and naive notions of how people change.
.. [Translation:] a notion that's poised to be taken seriously.
Dipping back to impeachment, here's a classic exchange between the "poised" Monica and House Manager Edward Bryant: Bryant, attempting delicacy, alludes to "the first so-called salacious occasion."
No wonder, then, that the exchanges between Lehrer and the Cabinet secretaries and senators and law professors and reporters seem so articulate and poised; that the guests are eager to return to the show; that Lehrer was a guest at one of Al Gore's pretentious "metaphor salon" dinner parties in 1994.