Word: bloopers
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...Blooper. Lawyers say that defendant-attorneys typically get too close to their cases and blunder by letting slip information that leads to trouble. Trying to shake an eyewitness's identification of him, one Chicago robbery defendant posed a disastrous question: "How can you be sure? Isn't it true that when I robbed your store I was wearing a ski mask...
When an ethereal beauty named Julie Haydon played the role of a prostitute in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, most of the critics lambasted the producer for a casting blooper. Critic John Mason Brown noted that his colleagues seemed singularly omniscient in knowing precisely how a prostitute should look. The luminous and lovely Liv Ullmann is no one's image of a prostitute either. But Anna Christie is such a cheap, cosmetic come-on of a drama as to vie with any streetwalker...
...debates were a mistake. Instead of giving the voters a basis for substantive comparison, they have made imagery and theatrics more important than issues. Ford's blooper will be recalled long after Carter's non-responses have faded from memory. Vague sermons on morality will never stop a war. The naive desire to bring heaven to earth through federal spending will bring catastrophe instead...
...defended Republican policies and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a villain to the G.O.P. right wing and a man Carter has criticized for his "Lone Ranger" brand of statesmanship. Mondale argued vaguely for a more open foreign policy consistent with American democratic principles. He dragged in Ford's blooper about Eastern Europe's being free of Soviet domination. It was, he said, "probably one of the most outrageous statements made by a President in recent political history...
...Eastern European blooper aside, Ford gave an adequate performance (see following story). The whole debate was a 90-min. slugfest, in which both candidates threw roundhouse punches-a sharp contrast to the first dreary confrontation. But last week's encounter was more style than substance. Both candidates showed something of a box-score mentality, with Carter ticking off the names of the countries he has visited and Ford listing the names of the foreign leaders he has met. Carter greatly overstated America's weaknesses in the world. Ford's inability to put across his Administration...