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...charts the machinery of bureaucratic deceit, from the inflated body counts from the filed to the stream of lies American leaders told at home about Vietnam. The most penetrating imagery he presents, however, is that of cultural opposition between the American teenagers who were sent by ambitious bureaucrats and paranoid presidents to fight the war, and the people of Vietnam whom they met, the very reason for America's presence. The average age of the American fighting man in Vietnam was 19, and he was given the power of life and death over all the Vietnamese he saw. The hatred...
...grave. People who don't understand his anger don't know my father." Says a former Iacocca colleague: "He believes in reprisals for his enemies." In the book, Henry Ford is depicted as venal and mean, an almost unbelievably unappealing character. Iacocca asserts that his former boss was paranoid, vulgar, personally extravagant at company expense, cruel and sexist. Many former and current auto executives, including Iacocca's friends, think he was wrong to carry the vendetta so acidly into print...
...letter that the Black Alumni affair last weekend was (sadly, I think) heavily funded by Harvard resources, this event is also an illconceived and illegitimate use of Harvard's funds. We are after all in a neoconservative era (meaning many new middle-class white folks display paranoid-style antipathy toward new Black social mobility) and such short-sighted ethnic-hiving off of Alumni activity by Blacks could spark a similar ethnic-hiving off of Alumni activity by other ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Poles, Jews and alas even WASPS). The zero-sum or foreclosure power game around Harvard's resources that...
...President's downfall is too broad, his attempt to link cause and effect too narrow. It is hard to believe that disclosure of the Hughes cash was all the White House worried about, or that the gift was the only potential scandal the opposition party was sitting on. A paranoid with bottomless pockets may have indirectly caused Nixon's final political crisis, but he was probably not the main reason. In addition, Drosnin's case is not helped by pop-novel techniques that cheapen his journalistic efforts: "But now aboard Air Force One, the President was gripped by a darker...
...Captain Ahab of repo men, a proper mentor for Otto? Is the repo man's code, which Bud keeps muttering about as < he drives dementedly around looking for cars to grab, applicable to all the issues one encounters in this cockeyed world? Or is Bud just the most colorfully paranoid marble in the bagful that Writer-Director Alex Cox has rolling around his movie...