The movie displays the emerging role and importance of television in broadcasting public affairs and shaping opinion, and the circus atmosphere that surrounds American politics.The creature reached out for Lin, grabbed her, and then flew off, with General Yang perched on his back...She's not run after the way the other girls are because she's poor and hasn't any background.While primping at the front hall mirror, Alice voices her adolescent, fairy-tale romance expectations: "I hope I'll meet someone tall and dark and romantic, someone I've dreamed of all my life.Geoff: Yeah.Mr.Wise Guy.Bonnie: Oh, do something, do something.He may be alive! Don't just stand there!Geoff: Cut it out.Pull yourself together.Haven't you caused enough rouble?Dutchy confirms the fatalistic, indifferent reaction of the other fliers:Joe, you crazy fool! Nobody could tell you anything.