Word: blowers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student" wince toward each other asymptotically, oozing what the one hopes is concern and the other hopes is deference. "Touch her," says the director, "on the shoulder." Breaking the perimeter of mutual embarrassment, Bush makes the merest contact and murmurs inaudibly something about her family. As a whistle- blower, the Vice President has been miscast...
Every month potential Giraffes are scrutinized by ten to 15 of the couple's friends and neighbors. Many candidates spark disagreement, not so much over their causes but over such things as risk and motivation. "What was going on inside the person?" says Graham. "Did the whistle-blower really have an ax to grind? Was the volunteer organizer simply having a good time?" And these heroes must be pure of heart: "We want people who can achieve without resort to meanness...
...most effective and realistic roles for the U.N. are those of "facilitator, observer, and whistle-blower," said Maynes, adding that "states don't like to lose face" in the international arena. The foreign policy expert said that since 1945 the U.N. has made substantial contributions in peacekeeping, human rights and economic development...
There is bravery and originality in the bluntness of these movies. And in + their avoidance of melodramatic hype and improbably heartening resolutions, there are lessons American movies might learn. Still, one retreats with relief to the accustomed elegances of a well-made film like The Whistle Blower. To be sure, the paranoia that long ago settled damply around our spy dramas seems to have drifted eastward to infect Writer Julian Bond and Director Simon Langton. Their story has the British espionage establishment protecting a highly placed mole by murdering innocent, clerkish underlings in an attempt to convince its American allies...
Some critics were skeptical of the Pentagon's ballyhooed crackdown. "It's all show," said George Spanton, who was a Defense Department auditor for 25 years and became a celebrated whistle blower. "I can assure you that the last four years have been the worst that the department has seen. They are going after the brush fires...