Word: iranamuck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they are just continued next week. So Brooks concludes Broadcast News with a sitcom ellipsis, not a movie exclamation point. The movie ends, like the '80s perhaps, in resignation and anticlimax. Maybe no one believes in happy endings anymore, or even in endings. Maybe, after Bakker and Hart and Iranamuck, people are too cynical to care who gets the girl. But it is good to know that craftsmen like Brooks can create compelling, pertinent folks like Jane, Aaron and Tom. Can we hope that they will spin off into their own high sitcom? That would give us something, at least...
Washington, as is so often the case, has turned the issue on its head. The capital question of the year, it seems, will be: What did Ronald Reagan do to create "Iranamuck"? Instead, the question should be: What is Reagan capable of doing now? At last count, nine separate and distinct committees, commissions, groups, gangs, panels, conclaves and councils had been set up to investigate one or all of the parts of the affair. That is a formidable force for anybody to face, even Ronald Reagan, he of monumental disdain for the catcalls from the galleries. The President might just...
Among the unanswered questions of the "Iranamuck" scandal, this is the one that really nags the nation...
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