Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout his career, Shultz has been known for his perfect corporate cool, his poker-faced steadiness. But last Wednesday, as he read a defensive statement about Lebanon to reporters, his face was ashen and puffy, his voice trembled. He stuck by the now irrelevant May 17 agreement. He referred to "the explosive flow of current events" as if it were an imposition, something beyond the call of duty for a Secretary of State. Next day, his 38th wedding anniversary, Shultz took off with his wife for the Bahamas, seeking some needed rest far from that explosive flow. -By Kurt Andersen...
...Union, he said, did not seek military superiority, but would not allow others to upset the strategic balance. In a passage that must have pleased the military establishment, he promised to "see to it that our country's defense capacity be strengthened, that we should have enough means to cool the hot heads of militant adventurists...
...part to the fact that she is a model rather than an actress and in part to the fact that she is required to do about half her scenes nude to the waist) seduces "Uncle Matthew." The joke-if the word can be applied here-is that she is cool and sophisticated, while he gets all flustered and furtive in a supposedly comic way. What the writers want to have taken as a morally balancing conclusion-it is actually just another act of desperation-is supplied by the revelation that Matthew's wife has, all along, been having...
Donen and Producer-Co-Writer Gelbart (M*A*S*H) are, like Caine, men who know better than to do the shoddy, but they are too busy trying to prove they are hip guys, cool on the trail of the rapidly aging New Morality, to emulate his try for modest craftsmanship. It is dismaying to see them sell off comedy's right to social criticism in exchange for the chance to make soft-core porn. Perhaps that accounts for the dispirited and guilty air of a film that makes even Rio look ugly and cannot work up so much...
...hair.) And also as usual, Act I contains rudimentary plot development, sexual innuendo, and jokes about Harvard administrators in the audience--a spectacle immediately preceded by the opportunity to watch the HPT producers humiliate a smiling celebrity with Man of the Year honors. (Sean Connery didn't lose his cool when Gail Aidinoff crowned him with a curly black wig and two busty men kissed his cheeks, and he didn't crack up when co-producer Tom Strickler forgot what movies he had been in. The audience did, but that's the kind of thing people go to live presentations...