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...willingness to begin negotiations." Reagan was less guarded. "Do you have any reply to Brezhnev?" a reporter asked. "Not that you'd want to print," the President shot back. But then he added: "I'm kidding. I think we'll be meeting." Reagan's flippant remark, while inappropriate, reflected optimism within the White House that the President's arms-control speech, and Moscow's answer, will defuse domestic antinuclear sentiment and help smooth the way for his forthcoming trip to Western Europe...
Murray ignored the remark. "I'll miss WKRP in Cincinnati," he volunteered, his bald head waxing nostalgic. "They were like us too-a tiny, not very successful radio station whose employees were never quite resourceful or ruthless enough to be No. 1. I always thought of them as human Muppets. Dynel Andy and soft, squeezable Mr. Carlson tried to keep their charges in order. But Venus Flytrap and Johnny Fever, the disc jockeys, were too weird, and Les Nessman too straight, and Bailey too nice-a little like you, Mary-and Herb Tarlek too wonderfully oafish to realize...
...members of ALLSA had the good sense to exercise their right in a free society and at one of America's finest universities to ignore the ill-considered pressure from their Jewish peers and to hear any speaker they like. Pleased because I concur with Prof. Alan Dershowitz's remark that a PLO official has the full right of free speech at Harvard just as those opposing him have the full right to express opposition...
...think Reagan is a very kindhearted, well-intentioned man. He's not out to get anyone: Blacks, poor, whoever....At the same time I think he's a fairly simplistic man Jimmy Carter was a very intelligent man, and we saw where he got us. But I quoted the remark the Reagan made to [U.S. Arms Negotiator] Paul Nitze: "Well, you know, communists are communists, no matter where they are." And it's just not true, and in a way it's dangerous...
...Their mutual loyalty is so strong that the five principals-Azito's role is smaller-agreed to an almost unheard-of pay scheme by which each of them took an equal and relatively small salary so that Papp could afford to make the film (hence Ronstadt's remark about acting without being paid). Papp, for his part, is proud of keeping his congenial family together, and of fighting off Hollywood offers-for instance, to finance Pirates if he cast John Travolta as the pirate king instead of Kline...