Word: unconvincingness
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Harvard experts yesterday criticized President Reagan's Thursday night speech in which he justified arms transfers to Iran, calling him unconvincing and charging that he attempted to conceal his motives for making the deal.
THOSE WHO FIND this arguement unconvincing should think back to The Game of 1968, when Harvard whipped Yale 29-29.
But, of course, there were. Beaton's photography, as Susan Sontag noted, could turn the most celebrated subjects into "over-explicit, unconvincing effigies." His drawing was often slick and derivative, and his stage work was best when it could borrow grandeur from a vanished period. But the great achievement was...
MISCASTING MARS TWO important roles. David Schrag as head jailer ("and assistant tormentor") Wilfrid Shadbolt valiantly stumbles and smirks his way through his path of comic relief, but the darkly cherubic actor simply looks too young to be taken seriously. A suitor of Phoebe and a conspirator with Point, his...
"A man whom the world trusts." That is the campaign slogan being used by Kurt Waldheim, who became an international figure during ten years as United Nations Secretary-General, in his current campaign to become President of Austria. Last week the motto became an ironic taunt to Waldheim, who had...