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Since he first went to work for California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967, Lyn Nofziger had been one of the Republican Party's shrewdest and most colorful strategists. Blunt and profane, with a wisecracking sense of humor, the former newspaperman served on Richard Nixon's White House staff, advised the Republican National Committee and helped guide Reagan to the presidency. Nofziger left his job as Reagan's political director in January 1982 to launch one of Washington's proliferating "communications" firms. He apparently succeeded at his brand of lobbying, but at considerable risk to his reputation as a smart operator...
ENTER THE FIRST complication. Jack, a gruff, gentle-looking newspaperman, claims that he is innocent. Enter the second complication. Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close), a hotshot, tough-talking lawyer, believes that Jack is telling the truth, so convincing herself of his innocence that she falls in love with him. From this point the movie winds on, full of emotional tension: love entangled with mistrust and evidence confused with truth. The conclusion, of course, must be kept a secret. The only guarantee is that it will be a complete surprise...
Edwards can't explain why he opposed the general political flow of his times except to say that it was due to his family. "I was a cradle conservative," says the newspaperman's son. "It was a natural thing for me to be attracted to Goldwater...
...Young fathers can be so busy--so dumb," writes Newspaperman and National % Public Radio Personality Gordon Baxter. He should know; he was one. But that was long ago, and in this peppery account of his relationship with new Daughter Jenny, born when Baxter was 54 and already a grandfather by his "first litter," the Texan turns the tables. Although a reluctant father- to-be ("Lamaze, LaLeche . . . LeHusband"), the good ole boy becomes a good, if old, dad. Baxter stays home to write in a woodsy cabin with his second wife Diane, nearly 20 years his junior, and he and Jenny...
...then a Senator or a Representative; but they do not know it is wrong, and so they are not ashamed of it." So says a cynical newspaperman to an equally cynical speculator in The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. The speculator, though, sees virtues in the corrupt system: "We would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to--to--bribery. It is a harsh term. I do not like to use it." John T. Noonan Jr., 58, professor of law at the University of California...