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...revised and updated emotional cartography, audiences are advised to stare long and hard into the physiognomy of John Lynch. A young actor of Roman Catholic stock who grew up in Ulster, he plays the title role in Cal, a brooding, subtle film that dares to make the only valid response to the endless violence of life in Northern Ireland today: a sort of strangled horror...
Convinced that his methods were valid for political choices as well, Gallup boldly predicted in 1936 that the then dominant poll would be wrong in predicting victory for Republican Landon over Incumbent Roosevelt. Though Gallup would sometimes err, notably in 1948, when he picked Dewey over Truman, the weekly polls of his American Institute of Public Opinion and its imitators have put politicians and others in instantaneous, generally reliable contact with the public pulse and have permanently altered the conduct and the outcome of U.S. marketing and electioneering strategy...
...Reagan Republican is a sleek, smug, oblivious Darwinian, the Democrats left themselves open to being regarded as a collection of tribes endlessly brawling over things for themselves. Even the feminists demanding the nomination of a woman vice-presidential candidate acted for reasons that were selfish - as well as perfectly valid and historically necessary...
...implications of the decision for the criminal justice system loom large indeed. Not only is there no proof that a more narrow application of the exclusionary rule will yield more valid prosecutions, but such cost-benefits, analysis focuses excessively on the short-term pros and cons of laws--rather than the long-range impact of such a major change in this country's governing document...
...film, exciting and perhaps even dramatic at times, but haphazard. The book is written chronologically, but anyone at all familiar with Lee's career could open it anywhere, read a few pages and feel right at home. So often as a player. Lee seemed to be offering unusual, but valid insights-into the game and there was the hope that after retiring he would have had some grand conclusions about what it all meant. The farce is still there but often the book seems strung together like a collection of Tommy Lasorda one-liners...