Word: comments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read with dismay the comment by Barbara Walters. She says, "The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition." Walters' premise is that only a liberal cares about those in dire straits or has the answer to the problem. How untrue. How unfair. How naive. How typical...
That sort of ego massage may have been what Baker had in mind when he issued a tepid "no comment" instead of hotly denying the baseball commission story. In the past, Baker tried hard to squelch rumors that he would run for a Senate seat. However, he did covet William Clark's post as National Security Adviser, and had persuaded Reagan to appoint him as Clark's successor until Presidential Counsellor Ed Meese and other hard-liners sabotaged his bid. His pique and frustration may have made him receptive to job offers. "The fact that Baker...
...statements on these matters, the film, in its climactic accident, is robbed of its capacity either to instruct or to move. Unable to prove a corporate conspiracy against Silkwood, or even individual violence by someone whose job was threatened by investigations, the movie must content itself with showing, without comment, mysterious headlights appearing behind her car just before the crash. And then admit, on a concluding title card, that an autopsy revealed a large amount of tranquilizers as well as a small amount of alcohol in the system of this demonstrably unstable woman. This is the most significant...
Cornell junior Arthur Keith. Treasurer of Delta Chi, also refused to comment last week and even denied that the incident had taken place. "We are one of the more respected frats on campus." Keith added...
...female student complained about the harassment to Dean of Students David Drink-water who could not be reached for comment last week...