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...Smarts. The trouble in this administration is no one's got 'em. The lack of expertise on arms matters in Washington is approaching the nadir of the post-war world, a depressing trend made seary by the detachment of the President on the issue. The President's three top foreign policy advisers--the secretaries of State and Defense and his national security adviser--are all neophytes in the arcane business of nuclear weapons, leaving the nuts and bolts of the subject to second-level bureaucrats. Historically, every major Soviet American agreement has been carried forward through the initiative...
Sills, aware that her first priority was to use her celebrity status as newly retired diva to raise funds, often traded a personal appearance for a donation. Inevitably, quality suffered while she concentrated on money; City Opera hit its aesthetic nadir in 1982 with a tired The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Offenbach and a ludicrous I Lombardi by Verdi, which Sills didn't see until the dress rehearsal. "I have had my turkeys," she admits. "Had I seen it earlier, I would have pulled Lombardi out of the repertory. But two days before, I didn't have...
After enough of this, Olden seems almost too disgusted to go on. At the nadir of the film, Piper and company tie Valley Girl to a piano and make some allusions to rape. An R rating may be worth a lot in extra ticket sales; it's not worth this...
...Republican moderates and liberals argue that the party's problems stem not from too liberal candidates, but rather from the Republican leadership's drift toward the right. They say the party's fortunes reached a nadir under the leadership of the likes of Gordon Nelson, whom Sears describes as "not only in right field but beyond the foul pole...
...Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with the Olympians...