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During many of the months of his campaign for the G.O.P. nomination, Goldwater had seemed irritable, withdrawn, genuinely reluctant to fare forth to meet we-the-people, a reckless pop-off in his informal pronouncements, and a wooden soldier while reading his formal speeches...
Robin and the 7 Hoods is less ex citing than Little Caesar, less convincing than The Roaring Twenties, and less tuneful than Guys and Dolls. Proceeding on the reckless assumption that an old movie made over is better than no movie at all, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. pretend to be vintage Chicago hipsters who rob the rich and give to the poor-though the poor slobs who can't share the fun without buying a ticket may wonder whether it isn't the other way around. The actors snap, their fingers at the plot...
...laced into Barry: "If a man marching in a parade discovers that his cadence is different from every other marcher, who is he to say that the rest are out of step? But despite all this-despite the knowledge across the country that he lacks public support-despite his reckless pronouncements in the area of war and peace-despite his unorthodox and unusual views of what the Republican Party stands for-despite all of this, Senator Goldwater today is the front runner in the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. This can be changed. For the sake of our party...
...Reckless Proposals." Next morning he breakfasted with delegates in Charlotte, N.C., then flew to Atlanta, where he got a roaring welcome from a confetti-throwing crowd. Cried Scranton to Georgia's convention delegates: "Of course we Republicans believe that the states should exercise maximum responsibilities. But we also believe in federal responsibility. We believe that the honorable doctrine of states' rights should not be used to set South against North, to set East against West, to set black man against white...
...added to my legend," he confesses. His nose was actually disassembled in a fight in high school. But if such embellishments exist here and there, the private Belmondo still rides point to the legend. He does box, but only as an amateur. He is indeed a fearless, reckless fellow...