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This film's intelligence as entertainment is matched (and never overwhelmed) by the intelligence of its morality. And it is the presence of this latter quality that finally distinguishes it. It is not a blanket condemnation of investigative reporting. It simply says that unspeakable people can use the conventions of unnamed sources and unattributed quotes for ulterior motives, can twist them to make the journalist who thinks he is serving the public good actually serve private (or governmental) ends that are no good. Perhaps most important of all, the picture reminds us that many public actions are motivated...
Post-flight inspections of the thermal protection system, a blanket of 31,000 silica tiles which protects the 122-foot long orbiter from the heat of reentry, revealed only minor damage and no missing tiles, White said. The tiles had been a problem on Columbia's first flight in April, and were a source of many of the delays that set the $10-billion shuttle project more than three years behind schedule...
...before the breakup of La Nativité, the Coast Guard cutter Chase made its first catch: a leaky 35-ft. sailboat filled with 57 refugees. But Coast Guard officials admit that they can do little to avert a tragedy like La Nativité. "We can't blanket the coast with cutters," said one Coast Guard officer. "Unless you happen to be in the right place at the right time, things like this are going to happen...
Despite my aversion to watching baseball in inclement weather. I went to a game in October once. It was several years ago in Chicago, when the Bears were playing the St. Louis Post-Dispatches at Comiskey Field. I spent most of the game wrapped up in a blanket sipping hot cocoa, and I only remember one play. It came in the third inning. The Bears quarterstop threw a long pass, which they call a missile, to one of the left-fielders, who crossed the finish line into the "n"-zone for a home run to win the game. But everyone...
Almost any night on prime-time television, Yankee Pitcher "Goose" Gossage, 30, urges adults to "take a powder" with Johnson's baby powder, and Annette Funicello, 38, the onetime Mouseketeer who frolicked in the beach-blanket movies of the early 1960s, plugs the virtues of Skippy peanut butter. In radio commercials, Peek Freans are presented as a "serious cookie" too good to "waste on children," and jeansmaker Levi Strauss & Co. promotes its Levi's for Men line of pants by promising "the comfort you loved as a boy, the fit you need...