Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being prepared to fight it better. From the purpose of weapons to how to retain trained personnel, old theories are being ripped open and debated. Colorado Democrat Gary Hart belongs to a new cadre of efficiency-minded defense experts in the Senate, along with Georgia's Sam Nunn and Bill Cohen of Maine. Hart wants Lehman to think more of smaller, lighter submarines and smaller aircraft carriers for more flexibility and adaptability. Lehman works in a three-dimensional world where time, cost and efficiency so far dictate that big carriers and newly armed battleships (plus current submarines and other...
THIS DICHOTOMY could form the book's badly-needed central theme but Dickson unfortunately bumbles. Some of his anecdotes are telling and funny: Fiedler's annual conversation with the New England Provision Company before his end-of-season bash always went: "Hello Sam? Fiedler, here. It's time for that goddam party again." But others do not appear to deserve their build-up, in spite of Dickson's chatty "he told me" style. Neither the maestro nor the family and colleagues Dickson interviewed were strong on bon mots. Certain points simply beg for detail. Dickson lauds Fiedler's genuis...
...adding billions of dollars worth of armaments. Yet many Pentagon backers in Congress are afraid that support for increased defense spending will quickly erode if Weinberger's economic forecasts prove too rosy and defense estimates start spiraling upward while Congress is simultaneously slashing domestic programs. Says Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia, long an advocate of rejuvenating the military: "What is going to happen to the consensus built on defense when, six or eight months from now, this budget keeps going straight...
...blood test and marriage license have remained affordable at $20 and $5 (formerly $7 and $2), but once the honeymoon is over and tax time comes around, the newlyweds discover that the party is really over. If they both work and earn $20,000 apiece, together they pay Uncle Sam almost $1,700 more than if they had stayed single-making that bill at the Plaza seem like peanuts...
...never really doing anything. Throughout the entire film, Cimino cuts away from key scenes before they seem even half over. It's like a two-and-a-half-hour-long coming attraction. We get only fragments of performances from fine actors like Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, and Sam Waterston. And then there's Kris Kristofferson as James Averill, the film's central character, a Harvard-educated Federal Marshall: He's a zombie...