Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When you lose a game like this one, you lose it together," Sabetti continued. "I think we're all to blame...
...talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame for "the mess-up" in U.S.-Cuban relations by giving President Carter bad, inflammatory advice...
...years high-technology exports such as computers and telecommunications equipment provided a comfortable trade surplus. But since the early '70s foreign manufacturers have strongly challenged American industrial products, and the U.S. has been suffering increasingly severe trade deficits, thus weakening the dollar. It is all too easy to blame the trade deficit on skyrocketing oil prices, though they are a major cause; Japan, which must import all its oil, has maintained a trade surplus by developing high-technology products and aggressively selling them abroad. A prime example: every one of the million video tape recorders sold...
...terms with my past" genre--Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Christine Crawford's Mommie Dearest, and Nancy Friday's My Mother/Myself, are ghastly examples--are more motivated by bitterness than any sense of liberation as they grovel self-indulgently in memory's sludge and heap almost exclusive blame on mother for singlehandedly engineering their adult misfortunes...
...perhaps the book's overall blandness is not Theroux's fault--maybe the geography is to blame. After all, squalor in Mexico is pretty similar to squalor in Peru. South America lacks the historical associations of Europe and the exotic attractions of Asia. Maybe Theroux's topic is not interesting...