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Taxi Driver, movie ... John Hinckley's attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan...
...received wake-up calls alerting them to overnight cables and demanding to know what should be done. ''It's always a little off-putting to get slammed up against the wall at 7:30 in the morning,'' says an admiring Richard Murphy, who worked with Oakley during the Reagan Administration. Oakley's penchant for stating, in his soft Louisiana drawl, exactly what he thinks can get him into trouble. As Ambassador to Zaire, he was nearly kicked out of the country when his unvarnished reports angered President Mobutu Sese Seko. ''He doesn't say thank you. He doesn...
...slick. But along came a fresh cohort of bratty youngsters convinced of their own exceptional purity, and so a dozen years after the rock-'n'-roll youthquake, punk music appeared -- crude, youthful, exuberant, sullenly anarchic, objectionable to grownups. In the late '80s, as go-go prosperity ebbed and post-Reagan enervation set in, yet another raw, out-with-the-old rock paradigm arrived on schedule: the astringent musical and emotional impulse driving alternative bands strikingly resembles that of the Clash in 1977 or, even more, the Who in 1964. As before, the music tends to be willfully coarse and loud...
...think Ronald Reagan, and Nixon, and Johnson, for goodness' sake. I think more often than not we happen to elect guys that are good for my business. Bush has been great because, to get pretentious for a moment, Freud says you laugh about what you fear. On that basis, Bush has provided many more laughs, because the fear level has gone up so drastically...
...term Administration, people always say that, because the curdling gets so bad you can smell it from a mile away. And that draws even the comedians who normally just talk about TV commercials and airlines into the fray. I mean, it was true at this point with the Reagan Administration. It was true at this point with the Clinton Administration. It just seems to be a pattern. We get tired of them even in the best Administrations long before the second term is over. Something bad starts to happen, and we just go, "We know these people too well...