Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...direct. "Let's talk about Watergate," he thundered in Kansas City. "Before you put on your mourning clothes, let me ask for a show of hands in this hall from anyone who had any part in it." Getting across his point that the party should not take the blame for the acts of a "few individuals," Connally then indulged a frequent penchant for overstatement by going on to compare any Watergate-caused "class indictment" against Republicans to "religious indictments and racial indictments...
...much would you blame the administration?" "Well, who are you supposed to blame down there? The doorkeeper? The gatekeeper? Or the President? I would say it's his idea." Already the truck was out of control...
...blame for the outbreak of hostilities in the Mid-East belongs partially to those Americans who called upon the U.S. to adopt an "even-handed" or even pro-Arab policy towards Israel, Martin Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies, said yesterday...
Worst Crisis. In search of a scapegoat, Neapolitans have turned on the politicians, who are being blamed for doing nothing to improve Naples' woefully antiquated sanitation system. With typical Italian overstatement, the city officials are being referred to as "that band of cuckolds and brigands." Last weekend a mob of unemployed mussel fishermen assaulted the car of Naples Prefect Domenico Amari as it approached city hall, setting off three days of rioting that resulted in a dozen injuries and eight arrests. Politicians of all shades loudly began accusing one another of negligence and corruption, tossing the blame around like...
SOME OF THE BLAME belongs to director Peter Pilafian, who has gathered all the ingredients for a traditional rock film and mixed them poorly. Jimi offstage mumbles, cuddles a friend and sips Budweiser. Jimi in rehearsal starts, stops and starts again. Performances are broken up by audience footage and newsfilms of the Berkeley Cambodia riots. All this is welcome relief, but never convincingly related to the music...