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...retelling of the saga of Captain Bligh and the Bounty, which its producer either could not or would not finance in its full power and glory. Since his current producers, John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin, had almost as much trouble rounding up the money for Passage, Lean's cold contempt for movie magnates might even exceed his ire at critics...
...Reagan Administration has often acted as if any arms-control proposal acceptable to the Soviets must be automatically flawed. In fact the Soviet Union, like the U.S., will naturally accept only proposals it considers to be in its own self-interest. The open contempt for arms control expressed by some members of the Reagan circle and the unrealistic proposals for cuts offered at the outset of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) have obscured a central fact: the major source of the problem lies in the Soviets' own aggressive nuclear buildup and their excessive view of what they require...
...American cultural wilderness, bound by our understanding that only the SCHOLARLY LIFE was truly worth living. Our communal joy was that of arcane disputation: though of many minds, we were of one mind on the superior virtue of living the LIFE OF THE MIND. We shared, too, genteel contempt for athletes, fraternity men, sorority women, newshawks, campus pols--any whose central (or peripheral) interests were other than THE GOOD. THE TRUE, and THE BEAUTIFUL. Few such were to be found at Chicago...
...dealings and was soon joined by agents of the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service and Customs Service. Rich's often inept efforts to stonewall the probe took on a burlesque quality. His company refused to turn over documents to a grand jury, provoking $50,000-a-day contempt-of-court fines that messengers dutifully delivered to court each week. The payments eventually totaled $21 million...
...miners. About 50,000 of the country's 180,000 miners are still working despite the union walkout. So far, 817 police have been injured and 7,000 strikers arrested. As he sat with his N.U.M. delegation on the conference floor in Blackpool, Scargill was served with a contempt of court order for his failure to allow a strike vote. He dismissed the citation as an attempt "to take away the democratic right of our union to deal with our own affairs...