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...also did not ennoble William Safire, the Nixon speechwriter turned columnist who seeks to establish-with the repetitious use of labels like Lancegate -that all politicians are as shabby as Nixon. Cheap-shot comparisons are an old and dubious journalistic device: as if two people who share one trait can be said to share them all. New York magazine got in a worse cheap shot by egregiously referring to Lance as Carter's Bebe Rebozo...
...power wielded by Hollywood's biggest moguls over scripts and salaries, always standing by an almost quixotic sense of honor in an epoch sorely lacking men of principle. Although his career suffered accordingly, the legend that lingers only profits from this irrepressible streak. But in the film this trait is largely neglected until the concluding portion, when Russell decides to end the film with a famous boxing exhibition between a tubercular Valentino and a reporter from a New York paper that had published a scathing criticism of the film idol. To wind up the movie with this inherently ludicrous vignette...
...dominant personality trait is the willingness to gamble. Ballerina Assoluta Natalia Makarova, who now makes about $300,000 a year from her dancing, took a great risk in defecting from the Kirov Ballet to perform in the alien world of Western ballet. But then Natasha, 36, has always been supremely confident of her talent. Recalling an old Russian proverb, she observes: "It is bad soldier who does not expect to be general...
...seems that all the criticism Frank has refrained from aiming at White and McGee has been re-directed at Dukakis. He even charges that Dukakis's impeccable honesty, a trait all critics concede him, is reduced to the governor's being "a perfect ingrate." John R. Buckley '54, Massachusetts's Secretary of Administration and Finance, says he believes this is a result of Frank's disappointment in the governor and a general frustration with the state's inability to expand human services. Frank describes his current relationship with Dukakis as civil, but feels it may improve "if he doesn...
...respect, no signs have appeared that Carter plans to include Young in his inner policymaking circle (beyond a special office and secretary Young has in the State Department building in Washington). Yet, even if he is denied the influence he now says he expects to have, Young possesses another trait, also honed during his years in the civil rights movement, that may prove to be significant...