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...perpetrator is likely to loom up long before the last page. The detective has become an amiably flawed working stiff rather than a thinking machine. The final chapter is often devoted to the start of a romance for him or his client instead of the laborious untangling of a villain's scheme...
Measured against such a timeless classic, then, Irangate definitely rates as a grade B remake. Ronald Reagan, who for years has specialized as a bumbling Jerry Lewis type--witness his classic, What Disinformation Campaign?--simply does not exhibit the kind of depth necessary for the role of a mischievous villain...
Because of Arnold's apt suggestion, The Terminator turned out to be a memorable action picture, with a truly scary villain--a rare treat these days when real life is more frightening than the movies. If you've seen it even once, you remember at least two scenes: the one early on in which the killer robot from the Future picks up his high tech weaponry at a corner "Sport Shop" so heavily equipped it could be a member of NATO; and the sequence half-way through in which the Body lays waste to a police station, killing at least...
While flatly denying that air traffic is being delayed by a shortage of controllers, FAA Administrator Donald Engen sees a far more fundamental problem as the villain. The number of U.S. airlines has jumped from 38 in 1978, when deregulation began, to more than 250 today, vastly increasing the number of airliners flying. Contends Engen: "What this nation needs right now is to wake up to the fact that we're already short of places to land. We don't have enough airports...
...affiliates are restive, so are CBS staffers, some of whom are speaking out publicly against what they see as management incompetence. "We get a little annoyed when the company tries to make Ted Turner the villain," says 60 Minutes Producer Alan Weisman. "What the company doesn't talk about is the fact that we've had so few hits in the last few years, or the failed ventures that CBS got itself into. To a great extent, the chickens have come home to roost." Some staff members are actually rooting for a Tisch takeover, on the assumption, in the words...