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...charge Beatty with vanity and egomania, and a little misleading. He is actually Hollywood's softest, most self-effacing romantic romantic actor. Even playing macho-tough, as in Bonnie and Clyde or McCabe and Mrs. Miller, he's careful to show the boyish vulnerability underneath. Small-scale and unaggressive, he can't sustain a picture alone, so he surrounds himself with high-voltage actors and situations, and he counts on the audience to look to him for relief. In John Reed, Beatty found a figure ideally suited to his own quiet narcissism--a modern saint, political innocent and martyr...
...wanted to see some ass kickers." That was incentive enough ; for Hagman to make J.R. into the most unusual bad guy in the history of TV villainy. Like all those dudes he met when he was with his daddy, he speaks softest when he is at his meanest and smiles before he pounces; the more devious he gets, the more sincere he seems...
...caravan of high-level visitors signaled the importance of India's role in shaping a cohesive regional response to the Afghanistan crisis. In the softest possible language, New Delhi had described Moscow's intervention as unjustified and "expressed the hope," as Foreign Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao put it, that the Soviets would withdraw. Mrs. Gandhi's government, however, was equally jittery about the possible creation of a U.S.-Pakistan-China axis, which could push India into an overly close relationship with the Soviet Union, with which it already has a friendship treaty...
Shrinking Base. Carter's relatively narrow victory may also limit the benefits he can confer on blacks. They were only one element of a coalition that could come unstuck, shrinking Carter's base-and his re-election chances. The softest support of all may prove to be the white Southern voters who saw him as moderately conservative. Southern whites, after all, gave about three-quarters of their votes to Richard Nixon in 1972. If Carter seems to be overly attentive to blacks, they may quickly desert him. Carter's own pollster, Pat Caddell, feels that the Democratic...
...deep winter doesn't set in until after the Vikings have lost in the Super Bowl. Three times in the past five years, the Vikings have bulled their way into the big game, and each time they have gone home losers. This year they are driving through the softest part of their schedule toward one more crack at the title. Undefeated in eight games, the Vikings may have their best chance yet to live down their reputation as "the world's most famous second-best team...