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Bundy offers historical background, personal recollection and editorial commentary throughout his 617-page book that eventually combine to present an optimistic analysis for the future of global nuclear policy. Although Bundy has not written an autobiography here, one of Danger and Survival's most compelling characteristics is the author's first-person description of the international crisis in Cuba and Berlin during the Kennedy Administration when he was the president's special assistant for national security affairs...
...overplaying the loudmouth junkyard magnate Harry Brock, who is eight parts tyrant to one part teddy bear. Madeline Kahn (Oh Madeline) gets laughs as his fed-up mistress who sets out to acquire couth and literacy, but cute faces and cunning timing do not add up to a believable person. As the crusading journalist who sets out to trap Brock and woo away his woman, Daniel Hugh Kelly (Hardcastle and McCormick) seems lobotomized. Only Franklin Cover (The Jeffersons), as a sozzled, shopworn and sardonic Washington fixer, evokes a credible human being...
...House woodshed because he whispered around Capitol Hill that perhaps he might not want the Roe v. Wade abortion decision to be rescinded. This is leaked instantly, contradicting Bush's pro-life stand. Note to newcomers to heed John F. Kennedy's rule: "If there is more than one person (yourself) in a room, consider anything said to be on the record and a probable headline in the morning paper...
Students at the 11-person discussion group, which focused on the growing problem of AIDS in the Black community, criticized the techniques that AIDS education programs have used to disseminate information within the community about failing to acknowledge differences in the Black culture...
...feel that as a Black person we cannot forgetthe past. Unless you know the past you cannot livein the future. But maybe we should do a '50s and a'60s night," he added...