Word: flaccidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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REMAKING OLD CLASSICS has always been a popular--yet usually fruitless--pastime for filmmakers, as any views of last summer's pathetic reworking of the 1948 French classic Breathless can attest to Even superstud Richard Gere couldn't save Breathless flaccid plot. And in The Bounty, even fine performances by Australian hearthrob Mel Gibson and the superb English character actor Anthony Hopkins cannot sustain this reinterpretation of the well-known Mutiny on the Bounty saga. The Bounty reflects a prevalent new twist in the remake trend, seen earlier this spring in Greystoke, the latest turn to the Tatzan story. Both...
ADMITTEDLY, this is a very convoluted and shady tale. But it reveals just how President Carter's 1979 wild deregulation and the Reagan Administration's flaccid anti-trust prosecution efforts have combined to produce exactly what both Administrations said they would not--vicious interboardroom wars instead of increased oil exploration...
...back. They may be. The operative logic then, as now, was what might be called the Doctrine of Overriding Outrage. This doctrine holds that the issue at hand-U.S. policy in El Salvador, for example-is too important to be left to the flaccid (two sides to every question) processes of free speech and calm discussion. Why tolerate ideas that are so obscenely wrong? History is not high tea. As the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse wrote in his essay Repressive Tolerance, under the free-speech practices of a liberal regime, "the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect...
Despite Gorsuch's efforts to foster a different impression, the controversy has only heightened suspicions that her goal, and that of the Reagan Administration, is to slash the agency's budget and staff so deeply that its regulations become flaccid. Environmentalists like to say that during her stewardship, the EPA has been transformed into the "industry protection agency." Morale among employees has sunk so low that the EPA is the most leak-prone bureaucracy in town. "It's not easy to run an agency when the whole work force is either under subpoena or at the Xerox...
...Helms nears 70, his belief that strength brings peace, that vigilance thwarts aggression, is undimmed. And so he is back in public service, alarmed at the rising number of people in the free world who accept without question Soviet declarations of peace, who grow flaccid out of fear of Soviet strength. The cycle repeats itself...