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...could understand. What was more, four or five of the deceased's friends were smoking cigarettes. They had an almost compulsive look on their wind-burnt faces as they held the cigarettes up to their mouths and inhaled frantically, like teenagers trying to get the most out of each drag. Dark brooding clouds sat on the hulking cliffs above, as if God had resigned himself to the fact that as a matter of course it was necessary to provide a funereal sky for this funeral...
...continue to pour into the coffers of Saigon dictatorship, just as the Nixon administration aids its political bedfellows in Chile, Greece, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East. In any of these regions an increase of popular resistance to U.S.-supported oppression could cause the government to drag us into new counterrevolutionary intervention. This continual threat of war means that now, as with Dow Chemical in 1967 or with ROTC in 1969, it is no less important to try to break the ties between the military and large corporations...
...muttered ceaselessly of sanpaku--of the time when the whites of the eyes are visible beneath the iris. Sanpaku is supposed to indicate grave illness and a destined tragic end. Kim would drag herself as if on rickets to the bathroom mirror to examine her eyes. Her face looked glazed, her talk was high-wired, near frenzied with shame and self-doubt. And, not only for the sanpaku, but for the hair, yang of her body, therefore male and ugly, attributing the yangness to 22 years to meat-eating she stuck to the diet and clawed at the hair...
Meanwhile, Counsel Doar and his staff of 40 are trying to lay hands on the documents, tapes and testimony that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski has been accumulating on all phases of Watergate. Without the files, warns Rodino, his hearings could drag on until next year-a prospect appalling to everyone. But Jaworski, who has to worry about charges of partisanship himself, has been carefully insisting that he does not now have the legal right to turn over his files to Rodino...
...personify Richard's weakness, Ian Richardson plays the King as a kind of drag queen. This is disastrous. The epicene approach robs the audience of the pity it should feel for Richard's painful self-knowledge in adversity, and mutes his ringing defense of the divine prerogatives of kingship: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose the deputy elected by the Lord...