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...cover portrait showed an aged and heavily wattled Valéry Giscard d'Estaing slumped before a television set. On the screen was a photograph of a hale and vigorous François Mitterrand. An altogether apt representation, one might think, of the results of France's presidential election. Except that the portrait appeared on the cover of France's respected newsweekly L'Express five days prior to the decisive May 10 balloting...
...women also tend to cooperate better at the higher levels in such moments. Heightened tension acts as a magnifier; every word, and sentence, becomes an apt of international significance and is rocketed around the globe where it is examined and weighed...
Parr ordered the driver to turn right and rush toward George Washington University Hospital, 1½ miles from the Hilton. By radio Parr advised the Secret Service command post at the White House: "Rawhide is heading for George Washington." Rawhide is Reagan's apt Secret Service code name. His limousine is called Stagecoach...
Says he: "Most violence is not done by truly psychotic people. They are not completely normal, but that doesn't mean they are crazy." Dr. Gutheil cautions that no accurate explanation is apt to be simple...
What Rafelson ends up with, then, is a period piece, haunting in its intensity, but ultimately, distant and emotionless. We end up watching it like clinicians. Maybe disgust and rage really are apt subjects for nostalgia--and a lot would probably say that it's a good thing. But maybe that's what they really meant by the Big Sleep...