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Massachusetts Democrat Drinan cited, for example, such a "blanket authorization" as Nixon's orders to the plumbers: "I want these leaks to be stopped. I don't want to be told why it cannot be done ... I want results." To Republican Cohen, any act later "ratified" by the President, if only by failing to reprimand his aides, also made him responsible. Alabama's Flowers stressed that the Constitution's "take care" clause carries an "affirmative duty" to see that laws are enforced and charged that Nixon had "failed to resist even the transgressions of these laws...
Amorous couples retired to a lavatory and to the water bed, under the blanket of which various friendly acts-were discreetly performed. "Is everybody mellowed out?" purred Darcy Flynn, Moss's girl friend and business partner...
This plot seems more aptly suited for comedy and is inadequate to convey any political messages Wertmuller intended. Her material is simple and scant, for the dim-witted peasant has no ideological beliefs to articulate and a thick blanket of fear stifles his emotions. Except for one drunken outburst and a wild frenzy at the end, his eyes are expressionless, with pupils the size of pinpoints...
...tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...
...succeed if Americans realize that the energy crisis is not "put on, contrived or false." They have drawn no such conclusion yet, she said, even though the oil embargo touched off a series of far-reaching social effects. Americans, suddenly deprived of gasoline, were also short of the "security blanket" provided by the auto and all the "freedom, status and glamour" that it represents. During the embargo, Keller said, police records show that there were more "violent family encounters as people spent more time involuntarily at home...