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The Jaworski staff had fewer problems. Although under the same time pressure, eight topflight lawyers divided the research chores by subjects and produced a more tightly reasoned and precedent-studded brief on time. Busy supervising the various Watergate investigations and prosecutions, Jaworski nevertheless gave the Supreme Court arguments his personal...
His point is well taken. Bureaucratization, which flourished amid the growing burdens of government and the greater complexity of society, was designed to smother policymakers in blankets of legalism, compromise and reappraisal-and thereby prevent hasty decisions from being made. The centralization of government that led to Watergate has spread...
Of all the quixotic ventures that a young business man could dream up, the farthest-out would seem to be making automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote...
Off and Romping. Lester's film has all this and more-sophisticated satire, opulent costumes, crashing swordplay, and a feast of historical fact-noblemen sniff clove-studded oranges as they walk through grimily Hogarthian streets; the King plays chess on a lawn-drawn board, with the palace dogs his...
The Three Musketeers takes the Dumas novel's action line, a star-studded cast, and an Errol Flynn swashbuckle approach, with slapstick sloshed in every few minutes to douse whatever drama or gravity or sentimentality might begin to smolder. Lester and screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser don't play with any...