Word: hugh
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Schrader aspires to nothing and succeeds masterfully. From his subconscious has come a movie that reflects the pubescence of a society whose view of sex is about as spiritual as a strawberry-flavored douche. Cat People is a reaction, a burp caused by the sexual junkfood of Hugh Hefner, erotic bakeries, and crotchless underwear. And, like belching, it provides relief though one feels obliged to say, "Excuse...
...last bouquets for Nancy Reagan [March 8]. As Hugh Sidey makes clear, there is nothing wrong with a loving wife, a successful homemaker, a stylish woman, an elegant role model, even if she is the President's lady. All those critics are simply jealous...
...Hugh Sidey thinks Nancy's problems are "more media figment than real." Nancy Reagan, with her emphasis on warm elegance in this period of hardship for most of the country, offends me mightily. I am not irritated by what has been published about her; I am annoyed by what she does...
Like father, like son? The question barely survives the interruptions from the author's richly mordant characters: Dutch's lover, Judge Martha Sweeney, who kept her virginity until she was 31 and wears a .38 under her judicial robes; Father Hugh Campion, a "celebrity priest" who won $100,000 on a quiz show and went on to star in Father Hugh's Kitchen, "the highest-rated cooking program on the air"; Private Detective Marty Cagney ("Discreetly determining what was done-where & with whom"), who compiles the adulterous dirt on Dutch's exwife; Cagney's daughter...
...from the twin cases is apparent only through examining the shades of difference between the upper-class crimes. Barry Locke, the high-level bureaucrat who stole tax dollars typifies the evil outcast. Unlike in other recent corruption scandals--like those of Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, and Hugh Casey, Ronald Reagan's CIA director--no one stood up for Locke. The day he was charged King suspended him without pay. The day he was convicted, King called the whole affair "unfortunate." The public now scorns, cars, parodying the "Make it in Massachusetts" bumper stickers with the hand gesturing...