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...have thought very seriously about what really happened. Richard Nixon, in his farewell address, certainly showed that he had no notion of what he had done. I am really persuaded that Democrats who have had a habit of attacking Nixon for a generation have not really asked themselves what mode of behavior, what approach to government was really flawed here. Take, for example, these very same Democrats who do not seem anxious to look into the Chappaquiddick experience of Senator Edward Kennedy. I think that the only people who reflec ed seriously on the Watergate affair were those few Republicans...
...only to turn on his own bursting temper, but to flash the charm that has its greatest single emblem in his smile, which seems to be cordially unsettling and made mostly of radium. David Staebler, on the other hand, required Nicholson to master a more dour, slippery confessional mode, to hide his character's feelings from himself under a barrage of autobiographical patchwork. Nicholson was equal to the task. It is his most daring performance, and one of his favorites...
...left Law School, deciding to turn to still better things. The best of those better things is Kiss Me, Kate, a delightful major musical based on delightful minor Shakespeare, and it's surprising, for a farce, how major a portion of the score was composed in the minor mode...
...number of present-day labor leaders in Buenos Aires, a number of whom have been assassinated in the last several years by urban guerrillas denouncing them as "traitors." So, for the average Argentine, the fact of corruption is nothing shocking. Rather, it is the dramatic mode of presentation of a commonplace situation that makes the film so impressive...
Western man's step-by-step, linear, analytic mode of knowledge has enriched him, Ornstein believes, but has also impoverished him by draining out, or underground, his intuition and more holistic ways of perceiving. What Ornstein is after is "a confluence" of the two streams of knowledge-the techniques of the lab joined to the equally valid but vastly different concerns of mystics like the Sufis, with whose tales he regales his audiences...