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...investigative interest subsides, the G.O.P. may try to revive it. As Ferraro knows well, when national figures come under suspicion, the public and press fasten on to the reputed rascals and do not easily let go. There can be a rather voyeuristic zeal about such searches for official wrongdoing, and prosecutory momentum, once begun, is difficult to slow. Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down...
Instead, Erdosain joins a mysterious figure called the Astrologer in a plot to take over the world. It goes something like this: Give the masses a new religious symbol to believe in ("harness the madman power") and then exploit their zeal to create wealth, in this case by mining gold in a remote area of Argentina. The Astrologer explains: "See? We'll lure the workers in with false promises and whip them to death if they won't work." Erdosain feels flattered to be included among the brains of this organization. His invention of a copper-plated rose...
Even the flamboyant David Wolper (Roots, The Thorn Birds), producer of the more than $6 million extravaganza, ran afoul of an overweening zeal on the part of an employee well down the ladder of power. There were 300 placard bearers on the field trying to rehearse, and at the oddest moments an automatic sprinkler system would click on and reduce their practice to drippy disarray. At last the producer located a workman whose raiment included an enormous ring of jangling keys. The key holder was intractable at the start: "Watering that field is just as important...
...would take stony faces indeed not to smile at the exuberance of Mary Decker. Her joy at competing seems irresistibly contagious. Says the top U.S. women's middle-distance runner: "I love to run." Some of Decker's zeal may stem from her childhood, the feuding and eventual divorce of her parents: "If you come out of things like that in the right frame of mind, you're just more competitive." Such resolve exacts a toll. Her relentless training has led to a series of injuries, including one that kept her out of the 1976 Olympics. Then came...
...zeal to catalogue power." University of Connecticut President John DiBiaggio warned, "we threaten to subdivide the university into ineffectiveness." A dentist by training and a leading authority on preventive dentistry. DiBiaggio suggested an easy route to failure. "As with other forms of impotence," he said, "worry can create the problem...