Word: apparatus
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...least for the moment some are inclined to take out their anger on Nixon, who they feel executed Agnew. Egil Krogh, another of Nixon's White House aides from the days of infamy, was indicted last week, a harbinger that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's vast apparatus is beginning to gather momentum in the courts. The Hughes money given to Bebe Rebozo for the Nixon campaign has an ominous ring. Is this the end of a dirty shirttail that will show one of the world's richest men to be involved in the scandals of this Administration...
...avoid repeating it, Israel will probably overhaul much of its intelligence apparatus in the hope of getting a more accurate evaluation of the Arabs' intentions in the future. As an immediate measure, Major General Aharon Yariv, who headed Israeli intelligence when it masterminded the 1967 strikes against Egypt's airfields, has been appointed a special adviser to Israel's Chief of Staff David Elazar. The tough, cunning Yariv angrily remarked that while Israel held back "in order to demonstrate its desire for peace, we did not expect to be penalized...
...large and the Watergate hearings resuming this week. There is the sense that maybe Nixon has not reached the end of his slide after all, that he is being swept along once again by events that cannot be foreseen or managed. There is Archie Cox and the vast court apparatus poised to spring. Who can calculate what Hunt or Liddy or Mitchell or Martha or Dean or Ehrlichman or Haldeman...
...real estate broker friend persuades him to convert it into something more appropriate to the neighborhood. He stocks his shelves with volumes of pornographic fantasies and the apparatus to make them real-everything from vibrators to leather harnesses. The place is renamed Sex Shop, with every letter over the door spelled out in light bulbs that burn brightly even at noon. Browsing, except by minors, is encouraged...
...manage to avoid passing quick moral judgments. In fact, he manages to avoid judgments or insights of almost any kind in his general dither to be cute. Everything in Le Sex Shop is cute: the frustrated husbands and thwarted libertines, the perversions, the jokes, the whores, even the erotic apparatus. For the viewer, the effect of all this simultaneous coyness and brashness is like getting chucked under the chin with a dildo...