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Spokesman. Soon after the election he embarked on a speaking tour of 91 appearances in 35 states. Next to Ted Kennedy, he was the most sought-after Democrat on the banquet trail. Apart from collecting $60,000 in honorariums, Muskie also expanded his acquaintanceship with local political, business and labor leaders. But these travels took him out of the main action in Washington. That will now change. Muskie intends to reduce his frenetic national speaking schedule and concentrate more fully on Senate business. Though his speeches will be fewer, he will try to make them deeper. Muskie will also seek...
...Woody asked his friend the late great Lucien Price to address the Glee Club's annual banquet, Mentioning some powerful music, Price added, in that war year, "Although this world may be no great shakes, the future problematical, and no telling what may become of us, one thing is certain--so long as there is such music in the world, there is always that the world can do to us." Woody's career. right through our war-riven 1960's , was testimony to that view of music's potency...
...tricking their benefactors onto departing trains. Much of the film documents the Marys' coming and going between expensive restaurants and expensive ladies rooms. But they become bored with being successful parasites; they lie, they steal, seeking new excitement, "a worse kind of life." Finally they stumble upon an unattended banquet, which they utterly destroy. Here the film stops; they are seen drowning, calling for help against filmic extinction. The filmmaker, arbiter of their future, types out a message on the screen: "Even if they were given a chance, things would, at best, turn out like this." But they are given...
...relationship is first reduced to objective equivalents, then consumed: while a lover knocks unanswered at the door, they slice up first a sausage, then a banana, then an egg, and eat them. Hence when the two Marys arrange broken pieces of a plate in an effort to restore the banquet, they do not recognize their failure to return the system to its continuous state; that's the why they see the world itself--in pieces. Therefore they can have no world view, no morality, no fixed or whole perceptual reference (prerequisite to both philosophy and morality). They steal, they...
...Marché, a sort of Parisian Macy's, and once was heard to remark: "You're running France. I'm running the house." Be that as it may, veteran Elysee watchers recall that Charles had his innings on at least one occasion. At a recent state banquet, De Gaulle heard Yvonne venture an opinion on a political subject and snapped: "What do you know about these things?" -after which her banquet conversation was limited to small talk...