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While Park added no major revelations to what has been disclosed over the past 18 months, his air of injured innocence, his flippant responses to questions revealed much about the man. Said committee Counsel Leon Jaworski, who was often irritated by Park's demeanor: "He treats this whole affair as just an ordinary sort of thing." Park practiced, according to a report he wrote on how to win support for Korea in Congress, "invitation diplomacy." He entertained Congressmen in his George Town Club; he arranged junkets for them and their wives to Seoul. "The past records indicate that...
...meant only trial lawyers, it turned out, and his calculation had been based on rank hearsay: Burger had chatted with various trial judges, heard competency estimates ranging from 25% to 75% and simply split the difference. One barrister labeled Burger's remarks "preposterous and flippant," while another cited more scientific studies pegging the incompetency rate at 8% to 30%. After a shouting delegate pleaded for an end to the embarrassing "snarling catfight" with the Chief Justice, an anti-Burger resolution was resoundingly voted down by the delegates. Said an unrepentant Burger: "Whatever their intentions, they focused attention...
Tender, sensitive and deep, Elgin is repulsed by his college friends and their flippant attitude towards love and sex. Convinced that debasing bed-hopping is not the only alternative, the handsome soccer player turns down myriad opportunities to jump beneath the covers with sexy partners in order to save himself for something of a purer, more aesthetic...
...peanut warehouse business, but stands to earn some $500,000 this year from his various promotions and ventures. He could make more, but as his Nashville agent Tandy Rice explains, presumably with a straight face, 95% of the proffered business deals have been rejected as being "too flippant...
Prince takes his stand against the evil "grand inquisitors," but the potentially devastating scene is too brief and ends on a somewhat flippant note. Although the film's ending has fine shock value, it fails to fully satisfy the inner frustrations that have built up during the course of the film...