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...uncharacteristic of ratcheted-up Hollywood. We are reminded in the interview scenes that one does not need the histrionics of digitized monsters or the pyrotechnics of world warfare to enrapture an audience. The greatest drama of all can take place on the stage of the human face.As Nixon??s antagonist, Frost, Sheen does an admirable, if overshadowed, job. At the film’s start, he plays the television personality to perfection, sporting an ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take...
Likening the Administration’s plan for a separate three-week January Term to former United States President Richard Nixon??s plan to end the war on Vietnam, Gomes said he is alarmed by the path to self-destruction the University has undertaken...
...Dhaka described as “genocide” in present-day Bangladesh. Even according to Henry Kissinger, the President’s decision was not really influenced by Cold War realpolitik so much as by a fondness for Pakistan’s military ruler at the time. Nixon??s foreign policy may have helped to kill as many as three million people. Many more fled to India as refugees, mostly to my home city of Calcutta, dragging the already over-burdened economy to near-collapse and fostering the image of Calcutta as the city of the destitute...
...very carefully choreographed convention. In short, she tried to expose his speech as a photo-op. The term “photo-op” or rather, “photo opportunity,” was first coined by John Hart of CBS News with regard to Richard Nixon??s 1968 campaign tactics. It was not originally a neutral term; as Hart said, “In 1968, I thought [the photo opportunity] was a joke.” And yet, since then they have become more and more the norm. Newsweek photographer Arthur Grace wrote...
...Another factor impels Nixon to take on a heavy load of campaign duties. As Vice-President, he has no direct control or influence over state party organizations. Such control is very important in any national political convention, as Senator Knowland, currently the strongest threat to Nixon??s presidential hopes, has realized by running for the California governorship this fall. The most important method by which Nixon can build up personal obligations and loyalty among Republican state committees is to accept numerous campaign speaking dates in the various states. But a heavy speech schedule lures him into the dangers...