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...Eisenhower Administration, John Kennedy's lack of specific goals-are often sharply unconventional. Unlike other liberal admirers of Adlai Stevenson, for instance, Rovere concludes that the Democrat would have been a "disaster" as President, unable to control the military, the McCarthyites and his party's ward heelers...
...defendants arrive at the Westchester County courthouse every day in a law-enforcement caravan that starts 18 miles away. Entrances to the courthouse are blocked by concrete barriers to ward off Beirut-style truck-bomb attacks. Participants and spectators are screened twice by metal detectors before entering the eighth-floor courtroom. Outside there are armed police everywhere, seen and unseen...
Director Taylor Hackford, who did An Officer and a Gentle man, has banished darkness from his remake and told memory to take a hike. He works in a relentlessly sun-drenched present, and his central figures (Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and James Woods) are used as symbols, not of the past's sweet cheats but of tedious corruption and the lost paradise of Los Angeles. The result is a flat, dumbly brutal movie, full of overplotted complexity and empty of all emotional resonance, except that provided by the presence of Jane Greer (the original film's dark lady...
...attached to the Soviet Union's 176,982 electoral commissions. During the 60-day preparation for the elections, teams of two or three agitatori visit every household, from the fruit farms of Moldavia on the Rumanian border to the Eskimo fishing villages of Kamchatka on the Pacific. Some ward-level political banter takes place during these house calls. Irate voters are likely to grumble, "The hot-water system doesn't work here" or "When are we going to get a bigger apartment?" Since all urban dwellings in the Soviet Union are assigned by the state, the agitatori...
Husband-and-Wife Authors Peter Ward and Rae André give employees advice on how to advance by skillfully managing their bosses. Workers, for example, should not settle for the brief, face-to-face praisings that one-minute managers dish out. They should ask for the praise in writing, and then use it to help land promotions or higher...