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...goer in the vise of O'Neill's passions and obsessions, but -the drama's organic life is stunted. Except for Hickey, Iceman 's characters tend to be puppets who are twitched to demonstrate the central the sis. James Earl Jones' Hickey is over wrought, a manic-morose evangelist given to fits of hysterical joviality. In a production not conspicuously endowed with strength or cohesiveness, Jones' prizefighter style makes him disconcert ingly and divisively strong, as if a born winner had stumbled into the company ofbornlosers...
...described how Nixon angrily telephoned from Key Biscayne, Fla., to demand that Archibald Cox, who was then Special Watergate Prosecutor, publicly deny news accounts that he was investigating the President's financing of his San Clemente, Calif., estate. Said Richardson: "The President was certainly wrought up over that...
...capital D-is no metaphor but a frank statement of intention. The place is the last example of idealized, high-despotic city planning, a rich hick cousin of all the imaginary and perfect townships that architects from Filarete in the 15th century to Boullée in the 18th wrought from their schematic, authoritarian fantasies but never managed to build. Unlike Kublai Khan's pleasure dome, it exists on a plane of unremitting kitsch, sustained by the most advanced technology ever brought to the service of entertainment...
...MOST serious acts attributed to the Nixon administration remain crimes they readily admit--the widespread destruction wrought by U.S. military forces in Indochina. Endowed with unshakable faith in their good intentions, most Americans find it distasteful to use the expressions "war crimes" and "genocide" in an American context. Vietnam is referred to as "a tragedy." Demolition of hospitals, houses and non-combatant lives is termed "regretful." Nixon claimed that the massive bombing of Hanoi last December had him "in agony...
...incessant inspection tours around the empire, he walked into a McDonald's in Canada -and exploded like a raw potato in hot grease. "There was gum on the cement patio, cigarette butts between the wheel stops for the cars," he says. "There was rust on the wrought-iron railing, and the redwood fence needed to be restained. I went in there and said to the manager: 'You get somebody to mop this goddamned floor right now. And if you don't, I'll do it myself...