Word: ah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ah, you sure missed the track...
Then pardon-me-whilst-Ah-whup-this-out Tim clickety-clacked the first two lines. In the ol' kontry tradition...
...sees as their many hypocrisies. Near the end of his term, he writes, "I have been deformed. Granted, my judges sentenced me to only twenty years' imprisonment to make it plain that I did not deserve a life sentence. But in reality they have physically and mentally destroyed me. Ah, these spokesmen of humanitarianism! Only twenty years!" Is this the predictable lament of every prisoner, or is it the bitter, uncomprehending outrage of a man who simply does not understand his own criminality...
...shift eerily into that of J.F.K. or Richard Nixon. When telling an anecdote, Vidal regularly falls into the tones and mannerisms of its subject. He can do a wry impression of Tennessee Williams, explaining what happened to Blanche DuBois at the end of A Streetcar Named Desire: "Well, ah assyume she spent the next three ye-ahs seducin' th' young doctuhs at the insane asylum, then was let out and opened a smawul shop in the French Quahtuh...
...Ah, but we're wandering. At first glance, it's difficult to see how someone of Cockburn's credentials could be the logical successor to a maniac like Thompson. His fatner was Claud Cockburn, the British Communist journalist of the 1930's, and Cockburn himself started out on the editorial board of New Left Review, the kind of magazine which was the first to publish Althusser's "Contradiction and Over-determination" in English. But when confronted with American popular culture, he went wild. On a serious level, Cockburn is in the forefront of a group of leftist journalists writing...