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...window. Nixon puts the earphones on, settles himself into the armchair covered in brown velvet, a favorite brought from the New York apartment. The President puts his feet up on the ottoman and uses one of his yellow legal pads to make notes as the tape unwinds. The hours slip by as he relives history in this melancholy loneliness...
...simple enough to slip away; there is not so much worry in coming back again. At night, after work, when there is no company, Nicholson will light a joint, put on some rock music, loud, so it seals off every other sound. Then he will start dancing, in front of a long glass door looking down over a canyon below, pleased, easy, alone...
...that I voted for, believed to be the best man to lead this country, who has made significant and lasting contributions toward securing peace in this country, throughout the world, but a President who in the process by actor acquiescence allowed the rule of law and the Constitution to slip under the boots of indifference and arrogance and abuse...
...edges, grow nervous. Gamely, still in character, the anchor man shuffles script pages on his desk, making official-looking marks in the upper right corners. Still nothing. His composure never crumbles, just begins to crack. Smile still in place, if just a little askew, the anchor man starts to slip slowly off his chair, and down out of camera range beneath his desk. For laughs it beats the Today show clean...
...taut Hammett-Chandler tradition. But suddenly he glimpsed the comic potential of tossing the sand of petty frustrations and human fallibility into the well-oiled machinery of the thriller. Nonviolent, Runyonesque crooks could become the victims, and everyday life the culprit. Getaway cars could stall, crucial phone numbers could slip the mind, a paralyzing snowstorm could fall on the day of a planned bank heist...