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...poet who's condemned to death, and in the last act there's a trial by a revolutionary court, and everything's in chaos. So we extras really got into being a mob peasant jury--we'd blacken in teeth and wear wigs with hair sticking out, and put filth all over ourselves and make ourselves extra ugly. And then we'd sit in the juror's box on stage and chat and throw things and have a great time. I didn't like the rest of the opera, though, so I didn't watch it. I just...
...hard to contend that reporters should behave simply as vacuums, Hoovering about the halls of power after random crumbs. A story without a focus--be it the filth of the meatpacking industry, the sinister evil of Joe McCarthy, the links between political espionage and government officials--does not deserve to be called reporting. It is repeating what others have told, even if what they have said is pointless or silly. At best it is crude history ("History on the run," Woodward called it during his Harvard appearance), but historians too usually look for a way to focus their work...
...nation, in the process of its revolutionary development, cleansed itself of the filth of despotism and shed off an alien culture and mode of thought." So says the remarkable 175-article constitution that the Iranians approved last week by a claimed margin of more than 99%. Instead of any alien mode of thought, the new constitution gives all power to a Faqih, or supreme religious figure-that is, Khomeini. This Faqih is supposed to be "respected by the majority of the people as their undisputed leader," but there is no provision for his being elected. While filling this lifetime post...
...literary sharpshooters armed with innuendo and calumny. Self-annointed revisionists continue to issue one-sided tracts condemning JFK's affairs, Elvis's drug addiction, and Hemingway's latent homosexuality. To err may be human, but to forgive seems well beyond today's all-consuming passion to wallow in the filth of others--especially when that filth is a residue of the rich and renowned...
There are few kind words for the flight attendants who pass out "the antiseptic anti-chicken" and "glutinous casseroles." Once meal service is finished, Ronay and his inspectors conclude, the cabin staff forgets about the passenger. Worst of all is "the scandalous state of the toilets. Our experience of filth and discarded bits and pieces does not bear description...