Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrew Borowitz seems admirably suited for the part of Rodrigo, the circus acrobat turned informer, although at times his lines are inaudible; Maura Moynihan is uncannily boyish as his male sidekick. One of the best cameos is Paul Redford's chilling portrayal of Jack. He is authentically sinister in a horrifying last scene...
Many reporters are sensitive to suggestions that they are not tough enough on Kennedy. But it is no easier for journalists to get angry with Teddy than it was for them to get angry with Brothers Jack and Bobby. Explains James Weighart, Washington bureau chief for the New York Daily News: "He's such a likable guy. He's responsive ... You smoke cigars together. You kid together...
...book, Confessions of a Muckraker (Random House; $12.95), the late columnist's protege and successor, Jack Anderson (writing with James Boyd), acknowledges that Pearson's "success and power rested in large measure in the practiced impugning of others." The book is a lively recall of triumphs that brought down the mighty, but it gains unexpected depth from Anderson's confession of troubled self-doubts. It is no great distortion of the book's message to say that investigative reporting, as its critics and victims have long insisted, often produces sordid victories...
...Kennedy, in part because he is a good Senator and in part because he is Jack's brother, seems to be a man with an answer. In our current fear, we have decided too quickly that an answer is better than a prayer...
Strominger, a resident of Currier House, has a year to go before his graduation from Harvard, having taken time off after his junior year. He is the son of Anne and Jack L. Strominger, professor of Biochemistry...