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Though Ginandes's ambition to allow her subjects to supplement her pictures with their own words in order to provide the viewer with a more comprehensive impression of these women is sincere, the quotes are too long, repetitive and humorless. Worse, the photographs too rarely give us any insight into the character of the sitters. Those that do, like the picture of the lesbian couple sitting on the steps outside their apartment, their faces cool masks of defiant disdain, make the verbal statements superfluous...
...Adam didn't really like Eve, but by the end of the skit they are proclaiming their undying love to each other. They didn't really leave paradise, because they still had each other, and that, you see, is paradise. Unfortunately, Bock and Harnick insist upon reiterating this devastating insight three times in songs so soggy with sentimentality you could dunk your donuts in them...
...American correspondents who flocked back to Vietnam provided little insight into what will happen when the Saigon government falls they gave an acute sense of what is happening now, and a clearer overview of Vietnam than any available to the most recent thousands of Vietnamese refugees...
...same mix of insight and overstatement results when Cuddihy transposes his theories to the contemporary scene. A spectacular foray into the 1970 Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, "A Tale of Two Hoffmans," provides one of the book's most fascinating moments. Cuddihy puts aside the legal issues and instead analyzes the proceedings as "an ancient scenario" played out in the courtroom by Defendant Abbie Hoffman, an uncompromisingly "coarse Yid" if ever there was one, and Trial Judge Julius Hoffman, archetype of the assimilating Jew striving for Gentile "refinement." When Abbie labels Julius a "front man for the Wasp power elite...
...tower, the submarine typically carried three nuclear-tipped missiles of the Serb class, which has a 650-mile range and a 500 kiloton warhead. At the time the SALT I negotiations were about to start, and an examination of the Serb warheads would have given U.S. experts an invaluable insight into the state of Soviet nuclear technology. They could have learned about the reliability, accuracy and method of triggering the nuclear matter of Soviet missiles. They could have compared their earlier evaluations based on satellite data against the real thing. Hence U.S. negotiators could have entered the SALT talks with...