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...dissent has become domesticated in America; what were radical antiwar views in the '60s are now mainstream TV attitudes. High- ranking officers and other authority figures are mostly buffoons, insensitive martinets or corrupt sleaze balls. Heroism, at least as the military tries to market it, is usually a sham; public relations is the name of the game. A lieutenant in Tour of Duty gets drunk in a bar and empties the place by wildly firing his gun. A few seconds later, a bomb explodes inside, and he is hailed as a hero. Notes a smarmy major: "You're the first...
...games ago, however, the Seattle Seahawks started swooning on third downs, and last week Buffalo coach Marv Levy suggested his Bills might also feign strategic injuries in the American Conference championship game. Fearing a sham, commissioner Pete Rozelle issued a fuzzy decree on "the spirit of the rules" and momentarily turned Wyche's ingenuity into an offsetting penalty. Cincinnati beat Buffalo anyway, 21-10, but the theme of Super Week was established. Some 2,200 journalists, double the U.S. press corps at the Moscow summit, will be concerned with ethics...
...Dickens frame, this formula works at feature length, even if Richard Donner's close-up and impersonal direction clangs like the chains on Marley's ghost. And because, 4 1/2 years after his last star turn in a movie comedy (Ghostbusters), Murray remains a roguish delight to watch. As sham friendly as the guy who cheated off you in high school, as ersatz hip as a Vegas lounge singer, Murray lets the movie hang agreeably loose. Nobody tried for a masterpiece here; most people should have a good time...
...Saturday editorial page, The New York Times chimed in with the prevailing view of this new legislation as a sham bill designed to bolster senators' prospects for re-election. "The 100th Congress appears determined not to leave town without serving up a tough-sounding bill on drugs," The Times editorial intoned. The good, gray Times went on to denounce the new drug bill as "one that flashes empty promises under campaign pressure...
Desch calls the initiative a "sham which only wants to undermine rent control laws. The real estate community is so concerned because this translates into profit for them. They are concerned with the best interest of their businesses, not the best interest of Cambridge...