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From the evidence contained in the attach case, the Secret Service probably had no trouble identifying a suspect, said Russell. The diary contained directions for counterfeiting and described an "Operation C," a counterfeiting plot, in what Russell termed an "an incredibly childish way." The diary contained no mention of politics...
...would be childish, though, to insist that Lean's purpose was to blow smokescreens into the eyes of the masses by misrepresenting revolution. Bolt and Lean wrote it that way because they see it that way. It does seem odd to let a film about a popular Irish revolution be made by two rich upper-class English show-business entrepreneurs. But as long as people like them are the ones making movies, it's their view of things that movies will reflect, to the almost complete exclusion of other consciousnesses and realities...
Preacher and Millionaire. In his self-projected role as the new savior of pan-Arab unity, Colonel Gaddafi evokes both shudders and admiration outside Libya. His unorthodox manner and outspoken views have prompted some Arabs to call him a madman. "He's the most childish ruler the Arabs have ever had," says a prominent Jordanian banker. A Western diplomat in Tripoli observes: "Arabs are used to Byzantine language from their leaders. What they get from Gaddafi is exactly what he thinks...
...mind. Disgusted with the academic programs we had been following, with the dogmas of Artforum aesthetes and film school brutalists; confounded by the political considerations overriding all others those days (and by irrational local student reaction to them) we two would-be filmmakers, having spent the day escaping into childish pleasures, wanted some reassurance that these pleasures weren't false ones. Korty was known as an 'independent' filmmaker; reports of his earlier Crazy Quilt and Funnyman had sounded promising. And not only was riverrun reputed to be his most ambitions work yet (befitting the Joycean title quote), but its subject...
...awful lot has taken place at the level of national leadership in terms of the moral influence of the President's office," Cheek said. "I think we are getting conflicting assessments of the situation from people in very important places, referring to students like they're immature and childish and so forth. I am extremely pessimistic...