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...with some 40,000 additional employees on the federal payroll at the end of his term. Reagan said that hiring outside contractors for federal work-another ruse for getting around a freeze-will not be permitted. But he did not issue a flat ban on the practice. Another tip-off will be the size of the White House staff. Like Carter, Reagan has promised to pare it. One measure of his resolve will be quickly apparent: the number of employees listed on the payroll of other agencies who are actually working for the White House-a typical gimmick for hiding...
Scott advises students "to be suspicious of anything unusual." In the Third World, for example, where official police roadblocks are common, it is not difficult for terrorists to get weapons and government uniforms. But it is hard for them to get police cars. "That could be the tip-off," Scott warns. "Look at the vehicle in the roadblock. In the Middle East or Italy, if a van, baby carriage or wheelchair appears in front of you, you can be statistically assured you are being attacked...
Just after the opening tip-off, I decided that I wanted something to drink, so I went down under the stands and asked for the typical football game beverage--hot cocoa. Well, the woman serving drinks looked at me like I'd just flown in from the moon or somewhere and said they didn't have any. Can you believe that? All they had was Coke. So I got one. There's something strange about Coke at a football diamond; it's clear, like soda water...
...disturbing to see such bluffing and two-plus-two obviousness in the work of a man generally regarded as a master of style. All the same, the film is divertingly spiked with scenes in which DePalma admits and mocks the fatuousness of what he's presenting. The biggest tip-off is the incongruously languid, heavily orchestrated, ham-strung music, which seems brought on by mistake from another movie. At the outset of the museum scene, for instance, Angie Dickenson sits alone on a bench, looking at a large billboard-flat painting by Alex Katz--a portrait of a woman...
...telling that Kim Philby's fellow spy, Guy Burgess, was fond of quoting Forster's doctrine, since, thanks to a tip-off from Philby, Burgess was able to flee England for the Soviet Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes...