Word: badness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing the Ayatullah does seem to know: that Iran's revolution will go its own way regardless of what outsiders think. "If you foreigners do not understand, too bad for you," he said at one point. "It's none of your business. If some Persians don't understand it, too bad for them. It means they have not understood Islam...
...Bad News for Defectors
...make money; when he died in 1931 he left an estate of more than $2 million. Not bad for the depths of the Great Depression, but a puny sum compared with what a good businessman could have realized from Edison's inventions. Part of the reason for Edison's failure to capitalize on his own ideas was his fanatic resistance to any attempts to modify them. He insisted for too long that his cylinders made better recording devices than the more practical discs, and, because he had worked with direct current, he fought the introduction of alternating current...
...cannons, the screenwriters have lost their subject completely. The true and complex inequities of American jurisprudence remain untouched; the white-collar scandals that have actually afflicted contemporary Baltimore are never even mentioned. This film would have us believe that the courts would be first-rate if only a few bad guys (played by John Forsythe and Jack Warden) were removed from the bench. Such simple-minded solutions only add to the real problems that this movie mindlessly dramatizes...
...brass were sympathetic. "This program wasn't supposed to be David Frost vs. Henry Kissinger," said William Small, president of NBC News. "It was supposed to be an interview with Henry Kissinger." Indeed, the unedited transcript reveals that the Interviewer talked more than the interviewee, always a bad sign. But Frost had felt all along that this verbal tactic would be essential. Said he: "To set up a detailed discussion of a subject like Cambodia, you have to start with a long question and then come back with sustained follow...