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When the producers started showing their finished film to studio executives, the response was another collective cold shoulder. "It becomes a matter of power," contends Feldman. " 'We didn't want you to make this movie, and you did. Now you're going to suffer.' " Studio executives scoff at Feldman's conspiracy charges. "We passed on the movie because it was totally uncommercial and pretentiously arty," says one. Yet several prospective deals seemed to dissolve suspiciously, including one with New Visions Pictures, an independent company headed by director Taylor Hackford...
Some scientists scoff at the notion that dolphins provide an effective defense against intruders. Says Stephen Leatherwood, a Point Mugu alumnus who subsequently spent ten years with NOSC: "Wouldn't you like to have more reliable protection for your loved one than an animal who one day might decide that it would rather be a dolphin than a soldier?" Leatherwood believes these projects demonstrate capabilities and thus keep research funds flowing, rather than serve any real operational purpose...
Instead of carefully considering Malcom's charges--and the possibility that they might have certain truth--the Times took up a crusade to discredit her and her work completely. The response from the highest echelon of American Journalism was to scoff at the charges as so ridiculous that they did not deserve a substantive answer. How unfortunate...
...return to the confrontational days of the Reagan era. "If you're John Sununu and you're more conservative than your President," said a Democratic veteran, "this is a way to get ((him)) to take on Congress early on." Given the large Democratic majorities on Capitol Hill, Republicans scoff at the idea. "We're not that dumb," said a top White House aide...
Western intelligence sources scoff, saying they have clear evidence that Barbouti was the key broker for the chemical factory. Though they have yet to find proof that he knew the Libyans planned to make nerve gas there, at least one official flatly labels Barbouti "the central villain" of the plot and "the subject of intense scrutiny for some time." In fact, both the Swiss and West German governments are conducting criminal investigations of his role in the Libyan project, and tax authorities in England and Scotland are looking into his Byzantine business affairs...