Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Domestic Policy Adviser Stuart Eizenstat, he says, is typical of the Administration mold: "A skilled version of an unimaginative breed." Georgians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell, says Fallows, cultivate the laid-back style of "cool guys getting the job done without trying too hard or taking it all too seriously." One of the few to win a favorable notice is National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, "high-strung and vain," but also "the one among Carter's senior associates who tried every day to test the limits of his job and come up with new ideas...
...plot is raveled. It revolves around the U.S. Attorney General's office, which employs the Mafia to find a cool freelance hit man to abduct a Robert Vesco-like tycoon from his extradition-proof Caribbean hideaway and return him to face justice back home. This effort is complicated by many subplots, romantic and otherwise, all of them dismally predict able, all of them stretched to transparent thinness. James Coburn, Sophia Loren, OJ. Simpson and a quite decent group of character people are involved in this non sense. One pities the lot of them, but none more than Loren...
...returning to bring the revolution to what they believe should be its proper Marxist conclusion. "This will be pure Marxism, not Marxism with Soviet overtones," insists a dental student at the University of Illinois. But disconcerting reports have come back that some of the Marxists have been given a cool welcome by the regime and are under surveillance...
...seems to be rising at both extremes of Iran's political spectrum. Hours before Motahari's murder, 200,000 demonstrators, most of them leftists, joined in a May Day march in Tehran to protest high unemployment and the stagnation of the country's economy. Trying to cool tempers, Islamic leaders called on all Iranians to exercise "revolutionary patience" and cautioned against "professional, foreign-led agitators and antirevolutionaries...
...endorsement that "she crosses the sex/race barrier to make every reader understand the political and intimate truths of growing up black and female in America." Some blacks have also joined the acclaim. Novelist Ishmael Reed (Mumbo-Jumbo, Free-Lance Pallbearers), for example, says that Wallace has brought "cool clarity to a subject about which so much frenetic and feverish nonsense has been written...