Word: selfishnesses
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...against increased military spending and against registration, the activists are saying, however, that any solution to foreign problems--no matter how damaging to the American economy or its allies--is preferable to even the consideration of increasing our military potential. That reaction is much too hasty. It is the selfish gesture of people who understandably do not want to fight, but do not realize that no one has asked them...
More than selfish motives should spur the anti-draft registration campaign; it must be a movement as well against increased military spending, and unthinking faith in military solutions to international problems...
...film's hero, Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), is a driven director-choreographer who not only looks like Fosse but also shares his personal and professional history. As Gideon rehearses a new musical that recalls Chicago and edits a new movie that resembles Lenny, he carries on harried, selfish relationships with a lively crew of often recognizable figures...
...mass audience. Since then, there has been a benign backlash: a series of circumspect films about sensitive, unmarried men. Woody Allen's Manhattan and Bob Fosse's forthcoming All That Jazz are both, in part, self-lacerating accounts of heroes who toy with women to satisfy selfish neurotic needs. Blake Edwards' hit "10" is a touching farce that punctures the childish sexual fantasies of a male-menopause victim. In Starting Over, Burt Reynolds turns from a newly liberated wife to an equally liberated lover; Alan Alda's The Seduction of Joe Tynan tells much the same...
...turning Americans against one another. He says: "We have seen politicians in recent decades set people apart. They have helped to create special interest groups, whether on racial or religious lines or on ethnic lines, whether it's labor or management, whatever; and they have done it for selfish political reasons. Then they can appeal by giving or offering a promise to one group that they'll get special treatment. They are appealing to envy and greed and pitting one group against another...