Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Heinz, they could form a little association. Its name: the Davey Garth Fan Club. All those potent pols are, or have been, the clients of David Garth, the nation's most sought-after campaign strategist. His record this year: five winners among six clients. Garth's secret? Says the hard-working consultant: "There are ad agency guys more creative than I and professional pols more skilled in mechanics. But there aren't many who know both ends the way I do." Or who are willing to bleed through seven-day weeks...
Some aspects of the Administration's deal with the Soviets remain secret, and others are still under negotiation. But in private, senior officials have begun to lobby hard for SALT II. Says one: "It's a damn good agreement." Adds another: "This gives us the basis to go after more stringent controls in SALT III." Nonetheless, even if the intensive bargaining with Moscow does yield a treaty in the next few weeks, Carter and his arms-control team are going to need all their patience and persuasive skills to assure its ratification by two-thirds of the Senate...
...flatulent, hemmorhoidal and unnecessarily repulsive dreariness. The author uses a bludgeon when a tap on the shoulder would suffice--and heavy-handedness goes beyond his unsubtle attempts to expose the spy game. Le Carre's blatant symbolism, his clumsy equation of the declining British Empire with its near-broken Secret Service, borders on the embarrassing. The equation fails not, of course, because it isn't accurate, but because it is so obvious and, in the end, so trivial. The author would be well advised to leave the political profundity to the philosophers and sociologists, and stick to the gut-level...
...Blind Date, Kosinski constructs one moral dilemma after another. One particularly gruesome scene depicts Levanter seeking vengeance against a hotel clerk, whose betrayal of one of Levanter's Eastern European friends to the secret police resulted in the brutal crippling of his friend. Levanter lures the clerk to a sauna, knocks him unconscious, then unflinchingly shoves a saber up his rectum. While Kosinski says he himself would not have killed the clerk, making Levanter perform that act confronts the reader with the question: at what moment should life be spared. "The act generates respect for life even though...
...secret that Brian Petrovek won't be starting in goal tonight for the Harvard hockey team. He is no longer eligible to make spectacular saves at the collegiate level...