Word: whirlwind
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nixon is no less aware that he may be sowing the wind by allowing the plight of the POW's to dominate the nation's attention this winter-but he expects that the North Vietnamese, not his Administration, will reap the whirlwind that results. The tear-jerking Christmas-in-Hanoi campaign is, in fact, part of a shrewd double-bladed political defense he has constructed to still domestic protest and free his hand further for acts of aggression against North Vietnam...
...even more striking is the fact that most capital investment in Quebec is owned, not by English Canadians, but by Americans. (Just before the invocation of the War Measures Act, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa had returned from a whirlwind tour of the Wall St. investment community.) It was clear, the, that a nationalist struggle such as the FLQ's against the encroachment of Americans and English Canadians in Quebec would also be an economic movement to be waged along class lines. And the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner Cross-who was abducted only after an attempt on the American commissioner...
Brace for the Whirlwind...
Brace yourself, fragile man. You are reaping the whirlwind...
Jack Nicholson is either a mountebank or a highly gifted actor. Possibly he is both. As the dead-eyed hero of a couple of obscure westerns that he produced himself (The Shooting and Ride the Whirlwind), he made Clint Eastwood look like Laurence Olivier. In Easy Rider, he walked on and won the film from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. Then he descended to his former persona in On a Clear Day, playing either Barbra Streisand's lover or a codfish. It was difficult to tell which...