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Despite his impressive record, Schorr gets into trouble because he is often too eager and cuts corners. He has been known to behave like an anxious rookie out to impress by elbowing others aside and pushing hard. Just before the Watergate cover-up indictments, for example, he went on-camera to predict that the grand jury would name more than 40 people. Seven names came down. At CBS, Washington Correspondent Leslie Stahl cordially detests him because, she tells friends, he hogged her Watergate stories...
...There is, for example, a very funny scene in which Oscar Hubbard (Peter Aylward) brings home his intended, the town whore Laurette (Melanie Jones), with whom he is "deeply and sincerely in love," as he declares repeatedly in a voice of hurt pride. Laureate makes a miserable attempt to impress the self-consciously cultured Marcus Hubbard (she tells him that her uncle taught her to love Mozart, but in answer to a question reveals that the instrument he played on was a little drum"), but her irrepressible earthiness finally leads her to puncture the melodrama directly. Indignant...
Allen isn't really the loser here; you're not laughing at his embarrassment. He didn't just swallow half a bottle of cologne to impress his date. The loser is philosophy--Allen caught the big Why with its pants down. It's this switch-around, from laughing at the man to laughing at the phenomenon that elevates Allen's humor to absurdist satire...
...group urged the OAS to "impress upon the Chilean government the importance of their respect for the rights of all individual citizens." They cited the reported imprisonment of Enrique Kirberg, rector of the Universidad Tecnica del Estado, as an example of Chile's violation of these rights...
...such maneuvers, East or West, Okean 1975 had another aim as well. Gorshkov, whose code name during the exercise was "Seagull," observed it aboard a warship in the Barents Sea, along with Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Grechko. They obviously meant to impress the Politburo as well as the West with the capability and reach of Soviet forces. One fallout from the first Okean exercise, for instance, was the decision to upgrade the Soviet carrier forces. Their third and most sophisticated carrier, the 35,000-ton Kiev, is now outfitting in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev and will undergo...