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...fuss over the mail-order MiGs will not go down in the history books as one of the Reagan Administration's finest hours. The various anonymous Administration sources who were supplying the breathless warnings of Nicaraguan misdeeds sounded less like belligerent hawks than professional Chicken Littles, proclaiming the doom of MiG 21's within range of America's banana supplies. The leaking hysteria became a flood that engulfed even the normally cool-headed Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), who warned that if the MiG's were aboard the Soviet freighters, American military action would be necessary...
...defense of network election day philosophy need not necessarily imply a defense of network election day coverage. From 8-9:00 p.m. they reported a story. But even an interest in close congressional or gubernatorial races falls far short in justifying the at times breathless antics of so many network personalities. Coverage quickly became just so many dumbshows, full of sound and fury and signifying--well, if not nothing, then at least very little...
...pounding away at this issue or that, of drawing blood, even of scoring a knockout. In the debate itself, the candidates try to look and talk tough. Chest heaving and frowning become measures of character. Entrapment, humiliation, accusation and scorn rise above sympathy and understanding. The debates and their breathless aftermaths demand a winner. If there is none on first viewing, one will be created. One contender is expected to exult and preen, the other to scowl and slink out of town, like Floyd Patterson after his K.O. by Sonny Listen in Chicago. It is the heavyweight championship of politics...
Dubbing her the "Mayflower Madam," the tabloids rushed into killer-competitive frenzies over her story. The New York Post explained her impeccable lineage in breathless detail and bragged to its readers that it had obtained nude photos of Barrows taken during a 1973 European tour. Alas, the editors informed somewhat baffled readers, "they were not suitable for publication in a family newspaper." When the Daily News printed a revealing snapshot, along with an exclusive interview with Barrows after her arrest, the Post promptly splashed across half a page its picture of the young socialite reclining naked upon an Amsterdam hotel...
...World War I trench warfare. Mustered out, he rejects a career in the stock market and marriage to Isabel (Catherine Hicks), his bitchy, materialistic fiancée, in order to embrace the exemplary poverty and thoughtfulness of Left Bank Paris in the '20s. Thereafter, a great deal of breathless plotting contrives to keep him in touch both with Isabel and with Sophie (Theresa Russell), another, more sensitive, therefore more self-destructive girl he left behind. It is not merely that the fulfillments he finds on his stroll along the path to salvation must be contrasted to the jazzy emptiness...