[Fledermaus]

Remember that Woody Allen movie "Sleeper"? After he's revived and discovered he's from the past, he's interviewed and asked about a picture of Richard Nixon (history was mostly wiped out). His answer was, "oh, if you committed a really henious crime you had to sit and watch his speeches" (paraphrasing).

[NutCrackerBoy]

Remember the book "Watership Down"? One of many allegories that contrasted the somnolent stability of captivity against the stark danger of the wild. NPR and Peter Jennings et al are processing the costs of war, the costs of liberty.

[Map Kernow]

Remember that Woody Allen movie "Sleeper"? After he's revived and discovered he's from the past, he's interviewed and asked about a picture of Richard Nixon (history was mostly wiped out). His answer was, "oh, if you committed a really henious crime you had to sit and watch his speeches" (paraphrasing).

I think you mean Howard Cosell. Allen is shown a clip of Cosell, and told by his debriefer, "the best we can figure is that, for those convicted of particularly heinous crimes, listening to this man was devised as a form of punishment." Allen deadpans: "Yeah, that's exactly it."