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...unreal or surreal. Our sympathy for Nora is further lessened by Schwamm's emphasis on Nora's contradictory and oppressive wealth. It is hard to feel for the frenzy of the poor little rich girl when it is described in terms of "her pulse...beating against the hammered gold cuff on her wrist...
Watt's off-the-cuff zingers have been a frequent source of pain for the Reagan Administration-not to mention those who have been at the receiving end of them. Unabashedly, indeed excessively, partisan in his politics, Watt has been known to distinguish between Democrats and Republicans as "liberals and Americans." He has compared environmentalists to the forces that created Nazism in Germany. Last year Watt provoked a furor of almost international dimensions after he wrote a letter to then Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Moshe Arens. Watt deplored the possibility that "liberals of the Jewish community" might oppose...
...detector tests, they will undergo an experience familiar to accused criminals, suspected leakers and candidates for sensitive jobs both inside and outside Government. The subject is hooked up to the machine with rubber belts placed across the stomach and chest, electrodes attached to the fingertips and a blood-pressure cuff wrapped around the arm. The sensors measure pulse rate, blood pressure, breathing and perspiration as the subject answers a series of yes-or-no questions. Explains Sergeant Michael McFadden of the Washington police department: "There's always a fear attached when somebody lies, and that causes a physical reaction...
...before TV cameras in controlled settings where he looks good, but how about the reality? How much does the President actually know about the decisions he makes? Most reporters are kept at a distance, limited in their White House access. Working from Reagan's speeches or off-the-cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson...
During his rebuttal, Wright called Meese to task on an earlier off-the-cuff response to the question, "Where would Franklin Roosevelt be without Social Security?" Meese had replied, "I don't know where Franklin Roosevelt would be without social security, but I know we would have been a heck of a lot better off without...