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...written by Eugene O'Neill). But Coe has cut more than usual here. To what end? Well, instead of letting Henry IV speak his opening lines, Coes has the King sit in silent thought while we hear a taped chunk of Richard II played on a loudspeaker with a hideous echo track...
...have been disappointed,' Jake said after -a long silence, 'if it wasn't hideous...
...Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy are less and less serviceable for the globe's trouble spots. Nuclear weapons can no longer intimidate the Soviets, who have as many of them as we do; in the masses now assembled by both superpowers, those weapons threaten, if unleashed, a hideous end to civilization...
...camps," obliterated with the recognition that at least some of the men who surrounded Ho Chi Minh are unreconstructed Stalinists. But what about the conclusion that Podhoretz draws from the scenario? Vietnam, he says, was an "act of imprudent idealism whose moral soundness has been, overwhelmingly vindicated by the hideous consequences of our defeat." Given the boat people, he says, the American effort to save the South from Communism was correct. But he is wrong...
...fight between rival intelligence agencies trying to kidnap or silence the Führer and rival media packagers trying to sell him. To forestall that, they head deeper into the jungle and put him on trial themselves. Hence Hitler's climactic defense speech, which turns into one long, hideous embrace...