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...again there were rumors of documents being destroyed (by North and Poindexter). Once again the White House was resisting demands for a special prosecutor (now called independent counsel) put forth by Congressmen who did not trust the Administration to investigate itself. Once again congressional hearings were getting ready to launch upon their unknown and potentially damaging course. Worst of all, there was a revival, before last Tuesday's press briefing was over, of the quietly poisonous question so well remembered from 1973: "What did the President know and when did he know...
Despite all the bitterness, few were inclined to launch a crusade against women or feminism. Said Rossler: "It's important that the men's movement not be portrayed as antiwoman. Sexism has affected us as detrimentally as it has affected women." In fact, the women's movement seems to be as much model as bugbear to the wounded males. Like feminists, conventioners complained about sexist ads, including two showing a female pulling a male toward her with his tie. "The tie represents a sexist noose or perhaps a leash," said Fredric Hayward of Sacramento. The men celebrated small victories...
...everyone knows better. Last week Boesky said, "If my mistakes launch a process of re-examination of the rules and practices of our financial marketplace, then perhaps some good will result." It was premature to say what further revelations and reforms might ensue. Nonetheless, asserted former Treasury Secretary Simon, "this is a landmark case. This is going to change the arbitrage business dramatically. People are going to behave with much more prudence." If not, they have a dramatic example of what can follow...
...dialogue often sounds like comedy writers' Muzak. (Grodin: "I'll see us all go to our graves before we lose this ranch!" Garr: "You go to your grave; I'm going to bed.") Burnett seems especially subdued, looking in vain for the precise parodic target that would launch her into an over-the-top lampoon of the kind she mastered on her old variety series...
...most colorful strategists. Blunt and profane, with a wisecracking sense of humor, the former newspaperman served on Richard Nixon's White House staff, advised the Republican National Committee and helped guide Reagan to the presidency. Nofziger left his job as Reagan's political director in January 1982 to launch one of Washington's proliferating "communications" firms. He apparently succeeded at his brand of lobbying, but at considerable risk to his reputation as a smart operator...