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...through the aperture of the Ervin hearings. By now, of course, the Nixonian cadre has turned a few phrases to bromides, notably the sci-fi sounds: "At that point in time," and, "In that time frame." Still, these clichés are excellent indicators of the Administration's unwritten laws of language: 1) never use a word when a sentence will do; 2) obscure, don't clarify; 3) Humpty Dumpty was right when he said to Alice: "When I use a word . . . it means just what I choose it to mean...
...many friends in the literary world that he refused to write any criticism, despite many offers. He lived so deeply inside his writing, and sacrificed so much of his own being to it that it is hard to separate the man from his work. His suicide is the last unwritten chapter of Recovery; the book and memory of the man together will remain as testimonies to the fame that so bedevilled...
...going up so fast," he explains, "I said there may come a day when we can't buy important old pictures. We have to sign up living artists." Up until then, the relationship between artist and dealer in London had tended to be a gentlemanly business based on unwritten promises; the word promotion was never heard...
...trial seemed like an unwritten epilogue to A Clockwork Orange. The 35-year-old man in the witness box could resemble an aged Alex, back in the public spotlight after a few years hidden from scrutiny. But somehow, the romanticized notion of brain transformation that Kubrick served up on the screen and Burgess depicted--to a lesser extent--in his novel seemed far away from the austere chambers of the Wayne County courtroom...
Thus this week, once again, the last act looms in Paris, though its end remains unwritten. The peace-badly stained, to be sure, by the events of the past month-appears to be underfoot if not exactly at hand. "Things are at a point," a top Administration official said carefully last week, "where the coming sessions could do it or the coming sessions can go on forever...