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...none of these. For what's most troubling about Character is Sheehy's cynical mindset, namely the assumption that today's candidates are inherently lying, pandering and manipulative bastards, trying to con the living daylights out of those malleable voters. Therefore, this self-serving mindset continues, voters should wise up, ignore what the candidates are saying, and treat what an "enlightened" few in the press say about them as gospel...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: The Problems of Presidential Pop Psychology | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

...sold more than $1 billion in armaments to Iraq in the course of the war, President Hosni Mubarak cautiously expressed hope that "this is not some kind of maneuver." Syria, which because of a long history of rivalry with Iraq chose to back Iran, professed to welcome the "wise decision of the Iranian leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf On the Brink of Peace | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...these are at best partial and local answers to a problem that goes much deeper. The central question is whether technology may be pushing the fallible humans who operate it beyond their ability to make wise judgments instantly on the basis of what, with even the most sophisticated systems, will often be ambiguous information. This question applies not only in the Persian Gulf, but wherever there are fingers on buttons that can launch deadly weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Horror | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...trousers -- or not enough of one to offer any real surprises. Stoppard radiates ambivalence about the genre he has chosen. Again, as with Shaffer, redemption comes from the marvelous acting of Felicity Kendal as an intelligence agent painfully aware of her shortcomings as a mother, Nigel Hawthorne as a wise colleague and, above all, Roger Rees as the defector, who is also the secret father of Kendal's schoolboy son. The spellbound joy and agony on his face as he listens mutely on the telephone to the voice of the boy he can never claim as his, can scarcely even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: London's Dry Season | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...suppose [Bush] would be a very wise man toselect [Sen.] Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas," Kalbsaid. "If you're thinking seriously about doingsomething unusual and something strong, that's theroute you should take...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Profs Reach No Consensus Over Potential V.P. Nominees | 7/8/1988 | See Source »

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