Word: racistly
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...other woman," Karen Traynor, is played masterfully by WASP phenomenon Meryl Streep. A lawyer whose civil rights organization gives Tynan information which can destroy a supposedly racist Supreme Court nominee, Traynor bears the oft-mentioned aphrodisiac of power: as Tynan makes the move on Traynor in his private office, he whispers, "I think I'm infatuated with you... You remind me of John Kennedy...
Southern Africa. The black manifesto demanded that Jews bring pressure on Israel to halt "its support of those repressive and racist regimes" in South Africa and Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Israel does in fact maintain a flourishing trade with South Africa ($120 million last year), and it provided military assistance that has been used against black guerrillas. Ties between Israel and South Africa started when both nations needed whatever allies they could find. Israel also used to help black Africa until the Africans themselves broke off these relations in order to take a more pro-Arab position...
...Young was "the only American I ever met who listened well. And there's a lot you don't even have to tell him." In Beirut a P.L.O. statement declared that Young was coerced into resigning, a tactic that "represents the ugliest form of mental terrorism and racist persecution." Israeli officials studiously avoided comment. But in Bonn, a high-ranking official said that Young "typified the Carter Administration's amateurism...
...often terrible. When the U.S. was engaged in delicate negotiations with Britain about the future of Rhodesia, he said the British had "practically invented racism." Then he said there was just as much racism in Sweden as in Queens, N.Y. Then he said Presidents Nixon and Ford were racists, then that he himself was racist, which he defined as being unable to deal comfortably with people of another race...
...script creates an exhausting round robin of ethical and personal conflicts for its hero. Should Tynan lead the fight against a racist Supreme Court nominee, or should he remain silent out of deference to an old colleague (Melvyn Douglas)? Should he carry on an affair with a bright Southern civil rights lawyer (Meryl Streep) or remain faithful to his equally bright and attractive wife (Barbara Harris)? Should he pursue his presidential ambitions or spend more time at home with his increasingly estranged kids? Not only do these dilemmas have the aura of the casebook about them, but they are also...