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...mirror his own limitations, Carter displays "a combination of arrogance, complacency, and-dread thought-insecurity at the core of his mind and soul." Fallows quit his speechwriting job last fall to become Atlantic's Washington editor. He seems to have been surprised when the press publicized the nastiest quotes from his piece, but when he called Press Secretary Jody Powell home to say that his article had been misinterpreted, Powell had only one question: "What in God's name do you think you're doing?" Groused another aide: "If you talk to Fallows, he'll tell...
...accomplished a lucrative but ambivalent sort of revenge upon the military. His first novel, which has earned $1.4 million in paperback, movie, bookclub and other sales, is the nastiest assault on West Point since Benedict Arnold tried to hand over its plans to the British. Dress Gray turns upon a conceit exquisitely designed to offend the rectilinear machismo of the Military Academy. It seems that there are inverts at the Point, Truscott writes. One, a model cadet named David Hand, turns up drowned, his body naked in Lake Popolopen and showing signs, in an autopsy, of recent homosexual activity...
Your Essay "Homosexuality: Tolerance vs. Approval" [Jan. 8] is full of the nastiest kind of bigotry-that which is expressed with a show of sweet reason and charity. "Oppose," but don't "persecute." It matters little to the stunned brain in a fractured skull whether the deed was done in opposition or persecution. Give me straightforward (pun intended), honest, hotheaded persecution always in preference to the cold slime of tolerance and fairness such as yours...
...Operations, his service is again embattled, not on the high seas but in the landlocked halls of Congress and the Washington bureaucracy. Long confined inside the Pentagon and waged with confidential memos, this acrimonious fight has now burst into the open. It is perhaps the nastiest battle on the banks of the Potomac in decades. Caught squarely in the middle of it is the only Annapolis graduate ever to reach the White House, Jimmy Carter, whose budget restrictions triggered the fight but who recently told a Navy audience: "I'm still one of you." And as a key House committee...
...aboard the Empire's mobile command station, the impregnable Death Star, able to destroy whole planets with a single energy burst, and at this very moment she is being interrogated by Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith, and the Grand Moff Tarkin-probably the nastiest pair of villains in the thousand worlds. What, they want to know, has she done with the stolen secret plans of the Death Star? If those computerized blueprints reach her rebel friends, the corrupt Empire might fall-and freedom be restored to the galaxy...