Word: queeg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temple of justice." Starr recalled fondly the Joe Friday character on Dragnet who was interested in "just the facts, ma'am." His rambling sermon was so defensive that White House staff members started paging one another, asking, "Are you watching this?" A staff member said, "It was like Captain Queeg. All that was missing was the metal balls and the strawberries." He added, "Who would have thought at the end of this, Starr, not Clinton, would have been the one acting like Nixon...
Your story mentioned that Hillary Clinton served as a House committee lawyer during Watergate and said she is "sounding a bit like Tricky Dick himself." I view Hillary more like Captain Queeg aboard the U.S.S. Caine. You could almost see her rolling those steel balls in her hand as she ranted on TV about the conspiracy. AL SARTOR Walnut Creek, Calif...
Others saw him more harshly. Last week, asked why Redstone would have wanted to get rid of Snyder, a source close to Davis compared him to Captain Queeg, saying, "It was a matter of how long before your patience runs out. He got more and more imperialistic." Frank Biondi, the president and CEO of Viacom and the man who fired Snyder, says simply, "Dick Snyder's operating philosophy and Viacom's operating philosophy were just at odds with each other...
Many likened him to Ross Perot. Pop-fiction addicts recalled Captain Queeg of The Caine Mutiny. Others believed Admiral Bobby Ray Inman to be an intelligence expert who had lived so long in the hidden world of spies that he now saw plots everywhere. But these were mere nuances to the majority opinion: Inman, explaining why he was withdrawing as nominee to be Secretary of Defense, produced a bizarre TV classic -- an utterly convincing, because utterly unintentional, portrayal of himself as paranoid...
This tautly written volume is The Caine Mutiny of the Vietnam War. Like Herman Wouk's wonderfully elusive Captain Queeg, the Green Beret conspirators, beginning with Colonel Rheault, seem indisputably guilty, however tragic the circumstances. But by the time Stein is finished, in Kafkaesque fashion no assumptions remain unchallenged. War, Stein implies, defies moral judgment, though judgments must be drawn. One such judgment was drawn by Daniel Ellsberg: the Green Beret case served to harden his determination to publish the Pentagon papers. The rest, as they say, is history...