Word: foolishnesses
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...scallions the size of telephone poles, Link's daughter is defiled by a stone statue and the president goes quietly nuts. Mixed in with the infrequent stabs at humor (The Upper Gormese president tells Link: "We have everything a civilized country needs but a repressed minority.") are dull sequences, foolish jokes and a handful of racist portrayals. Back in the good ol' U.S.A., Link's advisers kill him off (well, not really) and the vice president (Bob Dishy) dies of a heart attack from the shock of becoming president...
...urge those called upon to register to refuse, and to refuse loudly. When draft registration began six months ago, there were plenty of reasons to oppose it, reasons that have not disappeared. Registration remains militarily foolish--estimates are it will trim by but a few days the time it takes to induct Americans into the armed forces. And registration remains a political ploy--originally adopted to aid the flagging reelection campaign of President Carter, it also served as a part of that chief executive's dangerously confrontational revival of the cold war. And President-elect Ronald Reagan, who found...
Reagan is our clown prince, and we are his foolish subjects. Don't look now, America, but the whole world is laughing. Maybe he deserved an Academy Award for his startling performance, but he certainly didn't deserve to be President...
...Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else...
...feels different now, and his voice rises slightly as he denounces the President: "I just get a feeling of incompetence from him and his people. Take the U.N. vote [opposing Israel's settlements, for which Carter later apologized]. It made America look so foolish. I feel we're just muddling along." But he is also troubled by Reagan. "I don't get the feel ing that Reagan is a real intelligent man, and that worries...