Word: remarkes
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...moment, like the conclusion of The Natural -- music soaring, fireworks exploding, the crowd in hysterics. But no, it's just an away game on a flatly lighted September afternoon at the end of a nowhere season. The people who made The Babe seem to understand F. Scott Fitzgerald's remark about there being no second acts in American life. They have the honesty to let their movie peter out just as Ruth's career did -- in anger, hurt and stupefaction...
Suddenly, last November, the U.S. Justice Department blamed the bombing on two Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The scenario prompted President Bush to remark, "The Syrians took a bum rap on this." It also triggered an outcry from the victims' families, who claimed that pointing the finger at Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times...
...Player gives credence to Oscar Levant's epigram remark about Hollywood: "Scratch off the phony tinsel at the top, and you uncover the real tinsel at the heart...
These explanations are at best incomplete, and more likely downright disingenuous. The hymietown remark is a handy soundbits for Jewish antagonism toward Jackson, but the problem runs much deeper than that...
Newman's thesis would have been both powerful and persuasive had he stuck to the facts he uncovered in the documents. Instead he indulges in unnecessary speculation and theorizing. Every instance in which Kennedy whispers to a dovish Senator or makes a public remark about his desire to be extricated from Vietnam is taken as evidence of his secret intentions; the far more frequent examples of his invoking the domino theory and denouncing the idea of withdrawal are construed as public posturing, designed to deceive conservatives in order to get re-elected. In fact, it would be more logical...