Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismal swamp of escalation scenarios and counterforce strategies is familiar territory to Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote a major segment of this week's cover package on the specter of nuclear war. Talbott covered the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and subsequently turned his reportage into a 1979 book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT 11. His fascination with Soviet affairs and Soviet-American relations goes back to his first Russian-language studies at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. A student of Russian literature at Yale, and then at Oxford, he worked as a 1969 summer...
...more than that, the constant challenge of finding that one sale among the swamp of slams, polite hang-ups and pungent swearing sessions became addictive. It was a game between two voices, two personalities, two frames of mind...
...Washington atmosphere where the swamp gas of Watergate and Viet Nam still lingers, the press is generally convinced that much of what is classified secret hi the name of security is really designed to conceal mistakes and protect reputations. In this mood, coverage becomes a somewhat playful cat-and-mouse game, as the press ferrets out secrets, while arguing high-mindedly that the real winner is the public. This is true only when the public is learning what it had a right to know and was not being told. The rest is headlines, titillation and gossip, whose place in journalism...
...Senate Finance Committee, toured boardrooms, banks and the markets and came back to Washington bearing the same message from Reagan boosters in the world of finance: Hundreds of billions in new debt could cause panic. Democrats, confused and flummoxed for a year, are making similar sounds. The old swamp fox of the Senate, Russell Long of Louisiana, tumbled into a limousine the other day with a Republican Senator and drawled, "I want to help the President." Translation: there is a majority forming in Congress, and perhaps the nation, that believes that Ronald Reagan must begin to cut his losses...
...that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions. Perhaps Costa-Gavras should jump back on the locomotive of melodrama. When he stands still, he builds prefab tract houses...