Word: buchananism
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...some of its borrowing for it. Under a plan that the legislature in Albany is likely to pass this week, the state will sell an $800 million bond issue. It will use $500 million to buy from Con Ed two uncompleted generating plants-a nuclear-powered plant at Buchanan, N.Y., and an oil-fired facility in Queens-and the other $300 million to finish construction. The plants will be leased back to Con Ed to operate...
Ironically, five days before this official secrets act was introduced in Congress, Patrick J. Buchanan, special assistant to President Nixon, told 2.5 million people watching the Dick Cavett show: "Never in the history of the United States has there been a greater exercise of freedom of the press...
...reveal the sources of their information, the free flow of reporting that Lippmann described as essential to freedom of the press will be seriously impaired. A news source who can be identified can all too easily be "fired or discredited," in the immortal words of White House aide Patrick Buchanan. The ultimate loser is neither the newspaper nor the source, but the public. Information withheld is knowledge limited, and a public with limited knowledge is like a fireman with a limited water supply...
...Choosing Mia Farrow to play Daisy Buchanan is like casting Mickey Rooney as Albert Einstein...
...Waterston makes a gentle, intelligent Nick, but the role is largely passive. The movie's sharpest characterization is Bruce Bern's Tom Buchanan, a figure of imperiousness, steeped in contempt that comes from too much ease, too much money. When he and Gatsby confront Daisy in a hotel room one afternoon, the film catches the intensity that Fitzgerald conveyed in the sculpted contours of his prose...