Word: candidness
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Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, in a discouraged and candid survey of his first year as U.N. Secretary-General, complained that in all the wars, uprisings, invasions and disputes of the past year, the U.N. had been all but ignored. The same can hardly TV, said of the American public. As it reads the news, or watches it on TV, the American public may think it is merely looking on, with varying degrees of attention and interest, at someone else's troubles. But to foreign governments, the U.S. public is a participant, and increasingly the most...
Lachow expends a great deal of extremely creative effort trying to give these characters individual identities. Some of this devices are brilliant--a series of "candid" snapshots of the four ladies, for example, accompany the lords standard ravings before the female delegation first appears. Likewise, a long home-movie of one clownish master-and-page pair (Brian McCue and Jessica Marshall) offers a solid basis for the two's relationship before their first exchange, and the relationship provides one of the few emotional landmarks in a wilderness of obscure Renaissance jokes. In other cases Lachow resorts to more familiar conceits...
...investigation to re-examine every step in the assembly of the documentary. To that task he assigned Burton Benjamin, a senior executive producer. After receiving Benjamin's report, Sauter last week wrote and released an eight-page memorandum, remarkable enough for being made public and unique for its candid admissions of error. Sauter said, "CBS News stands by this broadcast." But he then conceded that the news division had committed five substantial violations of CBS'S journalistic ground rules, plus other lapses and debatable "judgment calls," some on evidence that was pivotal to the documentary's contentions...
...embarrassing U.N. session when she voted against a cease-fire in the Falklands only to have to announce, after changed instructions arrived too late from Haig, that the U.S. wished it had abstained. The questions poured in: "Do you and Al Haig talk to each other?" "Could you be candid about this feud?" "Is there bad chemistry between...
...Kirkpatrick the need to be diplomatic wars with her impulse to be candid. Candor won out, with a rebuke to her questioners and the press that was all the more effective for not being heated: "I don't think one could have a good government in which everyone agreed with everybody about everything ... the problem occurs when disagreements about policy leak into the press as disagreements among people... we have a kind of movie-magazine approach to the discussion of policy differences." She seemed to be saying that the press, in its superficial way, was missing the real story...