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...message, if any, emerging from the twin cases is apparent only through examining the shades of difference between the upper-class crimes. Barry Locke, the high-level bureaucrat who stole tax dollars typifies the evil outcast. Unlike in other recent corruption scandals--like those of Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, and Hugh Casey, Ronald Reagan's CIA director--no one stood up for Locke. The day he was charged King suspended him without pay. The day he was convicted, King called the whole affair "unfortunate." The public now scorns, cars, parodying the "Make it in Massachusetts" bumper stickers...
...many lovers and husbands were all played by Sid Caesar in a performance of virtuosic hilarity. Here they are divided between James Coco and Victor Garber. Garber is the rich little rich boy who first stirs Belle's precocious nubility. Coco, a clown in the grand lineage of Bert Lahr, is wonderfully funny throughout, especially as a Teutonic film director with a disconcerting resemblance to Benito Mussolini...
...women sportscasters surely don't add to the credibility of women sports fans. Phyllis George and Jayne Kennedy, both ex-Miss Americas, share their insights with us weekly. I guess having Bert Parks sing while you stroll down a runway means you know lot about sports...
Like the storm over Bert Lance's financial dealings that broke in the first months of the Carter Administration, Allen's problems raise a series of important questions. Just who are these President's men? How are they organized, how do they operate, how do their personalities play off against each other? Above all, how well do they serve their President?and the nation...
Confusing personal concerns with what is good for the nation has crippled many an Administration, as Jimmy Carter discovered when he refused to acknowledge the evil ways of his debt-laden Budget Director, Bert Lance...