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This decline of respect has been evident in popular culture: the image of journalism has shifted in movies from the diligent crusading in All the President's Men to the reckless destruction of people's lives in Absence of Malice, the corrupting collaboration with Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Under Fire and the intrusive buffoonery in The Right Stuff...
...longevity is in his daytime clothes, his brilliance shows in his extravagant evening fantasies. There are, to be sure, examples of pure, timeless classicism and of ethereal visions fashioned out of yards of Chantilly lace. More often he sheds convention like an overcoat in springtime. There are reckless forays into nudity, called see-through in the catalogue; avalanches of silk that swell the exemplary trapeze into a balloon; decadent wraith-wear for psychedelic occasions. Is this foolery (all done before the designer turned 40) vulgar, silly, nutty? Yes, probably all three. But some of it is inspired. Viewed today...
...including the Soviets, to know how crisis management works." Adds Lord: "It is important to understand that there are many choices between nuclear holocaust and abject surrender."World war will not start spontaneously, nor will it be avoided by chance. Real men and women, most of them anything but reckless, control the superpowers. Yet the program also made clear the unnerving flipside: for all their academic degrees and years of Government experience, the mock NSC facing the ersatz crisis showed flashes of anger, vast knowledge tinted by political bias, impatience and even occasional confusion. The Crisis Game demonstrated that...
...that issue. "There is a sense of futility about the Marines being sitting ducks. Most people seem to look at the Grenada invasion as being justified." Some Democrats predicted that the tragedy in Lebanon, along with the invasion of Grenada, might eventually add to public worries that Reagan is reckless with the use of military force. "The combination of Beirut and Grenada has hurt the President in Wisconsin," said Matthew Flynn, chairman of the state's Democratic Party. "He's had this nice-guy image. But there's a new feeling that the brakes are no longer...
Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brother[s] . . . If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would be the first person to say that Hoover's reckless campaign against Martin Luther King was a shame and a blot on American history...