Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometimes merry and bright director Paul Mazursky flunked this test in Moon over Parador, for he and Co-Writer Leon Capetanos had a nice idea. An actor named Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss), who has worked up a party- stunt imitation of the mythical Parador's strongman, is working in that country on the day el Jefe dies of a heart attack. Recruited to replace him by the ruling families, who fear a revolution, Jack finds, as others before him have, that playing President is an actor's dream: all entrances and cheering multitudes...
...Jack is not a Hollywood bubblehead. He is a serious New York thespian, meaning he sometimes thinks before he says his lines. Or anyway he thinks he thinks, which for an actor amounts to the same thing. In this enterprise he is encouraged by his inherited mistress (Sonia Braga) and by his dislike of the spokesman for the protofascist status quo (Raul Julia). The trio are game performers, but their energy cannot compensate for the lack of funny lines and well-constructed scenes. It may be that Mazursky was overcome by a sincerity attack and decided to send an earnest...
...There are now some presidents who bridge the gap between the worlds of traditional academic values and the policy issues that are increasingly crucial for a university's survival," says Jack H. Shuster, education and public policy professor at Claremont Graduate School and a self-described "president-watcher." He says that this new breed can be called "scholar-practitioners," neither the traditional denizens of the academic world nor the mediators of the legal profession...
CORRESPONDENTS: John F. Stacks (Chief); B. William Mader, Jack E. White (Deputies) Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...
Walt Rostow, Johnson's National Security Adviser, last week scoffed at the assertions. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk called the account "utter nonsense." Jack Valenti, a loyal friend who served Johnson in the White House for three years, suggested that almost anything written about Johnson, including Goodwin's story, was true at one time or another. "He was the same as Lincoln, Napoleon, Churchill and other notable leaders," Valenti retorted. "He was an elemental force. He was eccentric. He used words and body language as weapons. He kept people off guard. But he knew what he was doing...