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Dreadful Thing. The U.S. is thoroughly divided over the war, and there are demonstrations and civil disorders in the streets. The struggle is intensified when the President, recently nominated to run for another term, dies in the mysterious crash of Air Force One.
After pages of superfluous background, oversimplified opinion and bloodshed (including murder by laser), the party in power reconvenes its convention and chooses a hard-liner as its presidential candidate. Drury concludes the book with a "dreadful thing" that occurs on the rostrum as the candidate receives the party's...
(6 of 10) "We are fighting this dreadful war not for conquest but for survival."
Shy and introspective, he guarded his own privacy as carefully as that of his subjects. Taking a packet of sketches down from a cupboard to show to a critic one day, he remarked: "It's dreadful, revealing all these secrets." Self-revelation proved so distressing that Vuillard demanded in...
The influence of the magnificent Alfred Hitchcock is easily discernible in countless films, and impossible to avoid in those of Francois Truffaut. Soft Skin, Truffaut's best film, integrates into its exhausting spontaneity setups from North by Northwest, and Farenheit 451, Truffaut's worst film, slavishly duplicates shot sequences from...