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Secrecy is strictly adhered to. No minutes of Cabinet meetings were taken until 1916. Even today minutes aren't drawn up until after Cabinet meetings, so that only the Prime Minister's summation--and not the arguments that went before it--are recorded. Bagehot's dictum that "no minister who...
LANG'S WRITING is uneven too. She produces poems impatiently, without turning around to locate and pare away the bland passages. Perhaps her negligence results from the attitude that "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary, At best a breathless summation, for what words, What words existed before...
Fatal Beating. Clark, wearing his trademark narrow tie, appeared to have the easier defense. His client, Pernasilice, was accused of joining in the fatal beating of Quinn, yet only one man claimed to have witnessed Pernasilice in the act. Former Inmate Edward Zimmer said he saw Pernasilice strike Quinn over...
No evidence of that here. At Long Last Love is the untidy summation of a career that has become lost in synthetic giddiness. There are 16 Cole Porter tunes, so many that the movie seems to be strung together from a series of song cues. What passes for plot concerns...
New York Congressman Herman Badillo, another observer, contributed the most famous and most pertinent summation of what eventually happened at Attica. "There's always time to die. I don't know what the rush was," he said, after six minutes of uncontrolled shotgun and rifle fire had killed...