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...incoming administration may think they are doing their part to safeguard American interests from perceived threats abroad, and keep pace with Soviet expenditures. But today's free-for-all spirit of assenting to each armed force's projected hardware needs is far more likely to foster waste, graft, and over-confidence within a military establishment that is already notoriously unthrifty. Extra defense dollars would be better allocated to raising military salaries and improving the maintenance of existing systems...
Like so many movies and books that try to graft topical subject matter onto the obsessive mass-market interest in the Nazi past. The Formula requires too much exposition. By the time all the improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They...
...GOLDMAN AND DEMME didn't make him a hero. They don't try to graft any Hero of the American West symbolism onto this resolutely unheroic man; Dummar is no Gilmore, and Goldman is no Mailer. Melvin never gets a cent because the courts rule his will invalid. He faces his defeat with a curious--yet by this time predictable--ambivalence. Melvin says and actually seems to believe that he never had anything, so he's not losing anything. Despite all the lousy hands he has been dealt, Melvin enjoys his life and doesn't see any reason to change...
Surely many expect a concerned and competent crowd of young politicians to come to the rescue; the current cycle of conservatism, though, makes such relief unlikely. To enter politics has traditionally required either a strong belief in meliorism or a strong belief in graft. But in a state where the taxpayers have finally refused--and loudly--to provide new support, there is no reason to believe government will be able to do much to solve the existing problems. The rising rhetoric of new, improved and inexpensive liberalism is illusory; at best, a young liberal will spend his days in office...
...Amato's campaign has been marked by frequent accounts of his participation in the pattern of legal graft, wasteful patronage and sweetheart deals characteristic of Hempstead Town government. Already implicated in a kick-back scheme that required town employees to contribute 1 per cent of their salaries to the Republican Party to keep their jobs, D'Amato is currently being investigated for having allowed millions of taxpayer dollars to remain in interest-free accounts at a bank that later loaned him $100,000 in campaign funds. A grand jury has also questioned him about his role in transferring a cable...