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...obscured nor answered the most troubling question about Reagan. Put starkly, that question is whether he is smart enough to be President. The U.S. has seldom demanded that its chief executive officers be intellectuals, of course. But clear-eyed realism, sensitive and discriminating judgment, a feel for power relationships, instinct born of at least a general knowledge of how the System works are all demanded in a President...
...many people believe. Next comes emergency braking and swerving to avoid objects at high speeds. Each student is ordered to drive absolutely flat out toward a sharp curve until the last possible second. Just when he is convinced that the car will shoot off the road, just when every instinct and a lifetime of conditioning demand that he brake and slow down, Scott shouts: "Gun it! Faster! Faster...
...choices as he goes along. A great player will see even more alternatives and will make more choices." All of this is theoretically true, if a little over-intellectualized, up to the last sentence. A "great" player doesn't see alternatives; he senses what he can do, knows by instinct how to do it. Something in him says when to shoot, and it has little to do with timing or location, more with prescience and intuition...
With his unerring-some might say opportunistic-instinct for the value of publicity, Hoffman timed his surrender to coincide with the publication of his autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (Putnam; $13.95). In fact, movie rights have already been sold to Universal for $200,000. Even so, Hoffman maintains that he has not sold out, as some former radicals accuse ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin of doing. Rubin now works as a financial analyst on Wall Street. Said Hoffman: "The idealism of the '60s that went sour, neurosis in the '70s, greed in the '80s-that...
...near as a young designer's SoHo loft: cardigans in this fall's newest colors (baby pastels), crepe de Chine jumpsuits by Stephen Burrows, $85 knit caps from Paris. The show-and-tell sessions can last for three hours. Then, with her merchant's instinct, Geraldine (Gerry) Stutz, 56, grandly decides which products Henri Bendel will carry...