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Jody soon became Carter's constant companion, crisscrossing dreary, dusty stretches of Georgia in search of voters. Familiarity bred candor. Jody began sending Carter notes almost every day suggesting what the candidate was doing wrong. Jimmy bristled at first, then began paying closer attention: Jody was often right. "Jimmy doesn't like to be hit head-on with something," says a White House insider. "Jody is a master at approaching from oblique angles...
...Hofburg Palace, Mondale grimly told a press conference that the U.S. and South Africa were in "fundamental and profound disagreement" over the Pretoria government's policies, particularly apartheid. In what appeared to be a substantive turning point in relations between the two countries, Mondale added with almost startling candor: "We hope that South Africans will not rely on any illusions that the U.S. will in the end intervene to save South Africa from the policies it is pursuing, for we will not do so. Failure to make progress will lead to a tragedy of human history...
Nelan attributes the Pentagon's new candor to Defense Secretary Harold Brown and his Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Thomas B. Ross. Brown announced when he took over that...
There are moments in Annie Hall when whole world seems responsive to Allen`s deniand for total candor, if only through directorial manipulation. Early in the movie, Allen has his elementary school classmates reveal, in childish lisps, their future careers--from businessman to dope pusher. At another point, subtitles disclose what Annie and he are really thinking underneath their pretentious banter about aesthetics. Best of all is Allen's accosting of passersby on the street to ask them about his troubles. One contented couple straightfacedly admit that their content stems from the fact that they are silly, boring and vacuous...
...remember the key story points and usually they don't know what it was all about. And, of course, they are dreadful bores. Robert Altman, generally the most interesting of directors, forthrightly admits that 3 Women is based on some nightwork he recently did, but his candor regarding the source of the movie does not redeem it from tedium...