Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fighting the Enemy. The committee leaders themselves have close ties to President Nixon. Graham is a personal friend, and it was during his recent Knoxville, Tenn., crusade that Nixon made one of the few public speeches of his presidency. The rally's executive chairman was Hotelman J. Willard Marriott, also a close friend, who arranged Nixon's inaugural ceremonies and who employs Nixon's brother Donald as a vice president of the Marriott Corp. Marriott, in a press conference held before the rally, returned often, if indirectly, to the country's inner divisions...
Shaw took for his basic premise the situation of a young man's willingness to be executed in another person's place-very likely suggested by the end of Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities, where Sidney Carton goes to the guillotine in the stead of his friend Charles Marnay. Ironically, death did not, however, remain a matter of stage make-believe. Shaw wrote the play in 1896-97 at the request of the famous actor of melodrama Wiliam ("Breezy Bill") Terriss; but, before Terriss ever essaved the title role, he was murdered by a madman outside London...
...universe, the End rears its cross-eyed, leering face. Sometimes it looks like a bloodthirsty section man, sometimes like an Erich Segal, sometimes like a Richard Nixon. Or, more frightening, the End is in the eyes of a street kid asking for change, in the shaking hands of your friend crashing on exam-period speed, in the magazine covers that report the battle of the hemline with the fervor of Edwin R. Murrow covering the blitz...
...sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?... At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep...
...Herren). That task done, in a scene so tasteless that it represents some sort of nadir in American cinema, she fobs Rusty off on a horny old talent agent (Mae West) and puts a light finishing touch on her dark enterprise by trying to seduce Rusty's girl friend (Farrah Fawcett...