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...four neat rows of cocaine gleaming on a round mirror, "I'll kill you." So Tarver, an undercover narcotics officer on the Houston police force, leaned over the old oak desk and snorted his first "rail" of coke. The high was a revelation, one Tarver still remembers with vivid longing...
...OUTSIDERS succeeds largely because these troubled characters speak for themselves. This film is not as endearing as last year's film version of Hinton's Tex, the story of a pair of abandoned Oklahoma brothers who provide both support and tension for each other. But it similarly possesses vivid characters developed almost physical professor, the grimmer most abased with his laugh guy role and best at playing it. Both Machio and Howell effectively display the repulsive and magnetic ethos of being one of the boys...
There has been some resistance to these reforms within the Pentagon. A vivid example is a memo written last year by Assistant Secretary of the Navy George Sawyer that TIME has obtained. Sawyer urged the Navy to put forth its "most optimistic estimate" when drawing up its shipbuilding budget for fiscal 1984. Among other things, he proposed that the Navy "assume no [cost] growth beyond target" and eliminate all calculations of how much changes in ship specifications might increase the cost of building vessels. Which of his recommendations, if any, the Navy might have accepted in preparing its request...
...point of troop involvement or encourage negotiations mediated by other Central American nations. By persisting in supporting the existing regime, the U.S. state department is directing us toward the former alternative--a "solution" that can only lead to more of the horror stories which Silva makes vivid...
Carter: No. That the way we approach news is almost automatically built around what has to be called the vivid, the impactful and, usually, the bad news...