Word: blusteringly
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...lower-depths material in the '30s. Quaid plays dumb with canny appeal. Young, as a black for whom a noncom's career is a big step up, makes you feel his sense of risk when he stops going by the book on this detail. Nicholson's bluster only partly masks his insecurity as he moves through the excess of options presented by the civilian world. It is attention to authentic detail by all of them that gives The Last Detail its modest but genuine distinction. Richard Schickel
...money and such benefits as food stamps, housing subsidies, Medicaid and other health services. Initially, at least, the programs were continued or expanded by the Nixon Administration. From 1960 to 1972, social welfare expenditures in the nation shot up nearly fourfold: from $52 billion to $193 billion. Beneath the bluster and the controversy, a significant redistribution of income had taken place. Steiner passes too quickly over some of the deficiencies of welfare, particularly its tendency to break up families by giving assistance only to fatherless homes. Yet it is hard to quarrel with Steiner's summation of the decade...
...Arab journalist put it: "It doesn't matter if the Israelis eventually counterattack and drive us back. What matters is that the world now no longer will laugh at us when we threaten to fight. No longer will it dismiss our threats as a lot of bluff and bluster. It will have to take us seriously." Arabs round the world last week felt that they had finally shed their image as a people who could not and would not fight, an image that had grown out of the dismal defeats at the hands of Israel over the past...
...zany creature that the public saw, all that campy, trivial bluster, was real enough in its way, it was far from the substance of her deeper glow," writes Myra Friedman in Buried Alive (Morrow; $7.95). "The hysteria, the extravagance, and the foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock...
...Bluster aside, Nixon has a point: the U.S. does face discriminatory trade practices abroad. Tariffs are not the most serious problem; on finished goods, they average 8.5% in Japan and 8% in the Common Market v. 8.4% in the U.S. But the Common Market lavishes on its farmers subsidies that are generous even by U.S. standards, encouraging them to grow food that could be imported more cheaply from the U.S. Beyond that, it maintains a system of variable import taxes that can be adjusted upward to keep the price of American foodstuffs as high as they were before dollar devaluation...