Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...best of campaigns, it was probably not the worst, either. For all the obfuscations and invective, despite widely reported apathy, the voters were conscious of having the last word. On the morning after, the U.S. could only hope that soon the smears would fade, the hot words cool, the politics of accommodation resume. Besides, as the following notes illustrate, in the midst of the battle there were odd and funny testaments to the enduring vitality of the American process...
...firsthand: he would listen to the military briefings, then set out to check them himself. Before Frosch's arrival in Cambodia, U.P.I, had suffered from embarrassing gaffes, even reporting the proclamation of the Cambodian Republic twice before it really happened, months later. With Frosch's appearance, cool reason and uncommon accuracy became standard. Violence scared Frosch, and he admitted it. But fright was a thing to be lived with in order...
Around 11:20 p. m., the University Police, who had been watching the madness closely, went around to various entries where boys were gathered and injected the cool voice of reason. "All right, boys, fun's over." Soon afterwards, students returned to their books and their hour exams...
Most fairy-tales are parodies of history (knight-errantery, courtly love, etc.); Something for Everyone, through parody of the fairy-tale, slyly parodies history. It unmasks in a Bavarian setting the rise of a parvenn power-maniac, played by Michael York, as a cool mastery of perversion and murder. Angela Lansbury as the Countess von Ornstein nostalgically bewails the passing of "real men"-that stalwart Germanic breed in direct lineage from Attila the Hun and Barbarossa. In a world of "upstarts, the American tourists and plastic dirndls," she craves submission to a genuinely phallic male like Conrad. She also craves...
...p.p.s. Fauss is constantly taking ludicrous spills on his bike. Halsy is forever scratching himself, belching, boozing, caroming off lesbians-all the while covering past and future with a threadbare carpet of lies. Sometimes he talks like a daylight cowboy, sometimes like an Okie Voltaire ("Once, it's cool . . . twice, it's queer...