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The LAT is alone in quoting a Moscow military analyst who thinks "the initiative is slipping from the hands of the worn-out military and into the hands of the Chechen rebels"; and in citing another analyst who thought it suspicious that Putin removed two of his most ardent supporters, also two of Russia's most popular generals.
How could a wealthy, productive, sophisticated country have gone from enviable growth in the 1980s to stagnation in the '90s, and now be slipping into a downward spiral of recession and deflation?
While I'd love to be able to tell you that PBS was born in a Seven Days in May -type coup, and that Julia Child, Mister Rogers, and Jim Lehrer have been slipping us subliminal military propaganda since the beginning, Ledbetter doesn't develop his idea that the Cold Warriors co-opted PBS.
photos suggest the same thing, with nonthoroughbred models lolling and crumpling their clothes as they gaze straight at you, a strap slipping down, unless they're poised in fragile tinseled drapes and staring from under dream headgear.
A great black comedy should be palatable but hard to digest, slipping easily down the gullet and then sticking in the gut.