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Or it could be that Maslin is a little too well connected for a film critic, as some detractors have charged, and afraid to hurt her friends' feelings.
Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid; even the liberal New York Times endorsed Republican Kenneth Keating.
According to leading Arab affairs analyst Riad Najib el-Rayyes, writing Tuesday in the Beirut daily an-Nahar , Saddam's reiteration of Iraq's historical claim to Kuwait is intended as a signal to his Arab detractors that, if they continue trying to block his rehabilitation, he will make life hard for them by reopening a number of troublesome "files."
Nixon detractors say the desultory comments about raising money were the operative (as they used to say) part of the conversation; Nixon defenders (of which I, as director of the Nixon library, of course am one) stress that the president said it would be wrong and that (if memory serves) "the White House can't do it."
Book -- Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career , by George Plimpton;