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Turning the Pentagon even partly away from its you've-got-to-have-the-finest philosophy will be difficult, and it is unclear how hard the Reagan Administration intends to try. Says Weinberger: "While we are to some extent prisoners of decisions made long ago, and we thus far must purchase the weapons systems now on the assembly lines, we certainly are not locked into the defense policy of the past Administration." On the other hand, he defends the policy of developing sophisticated weapons. His argument: "We are now facing very much more sophisticated, complex, accurate Soviet weapons...
...Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt in 1978, she declined. Instead, she was retained as a judge in Maricopa County and, after only eleven months, was nominated to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Babbitt, who denies trying to sidetrack a potentially dangerous opponent. Says Babbitt: "I had to find the finest talent available to create confidence in our new merit system. Her intellectual ability and her judgment are astonishing...
Ivory King. Says the director: "The sacrifice scene was done in the finest of taste -taste the Pope would applaud...
...next year he portrayed Henry V both in Canada and Scotland--a stint that catapulted him to stardom, and a performance I have always regretted missing. For the past two decades Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of the dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando. Plummer has been able to efface himself completely when immersing himself in a role: his Pizarro in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and his work in the title role of Arturo Ui can never be bettered...
Cocaine is the caviar of drugs, except that it is 70 times as costly as the finest beluga. While an eclectic consumer might feel that caviar and a bottle of Bellinger brut give a headier, cheaper and wholly licit lift to an evening, many American hedonists get more of a kick* through the nose...