Word: blots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blot on Justice, an ironic tragi-comedy for which Richard Nixon recreates his role as the biggest fool who ever ran a country, is continuing its unpopular run at the White House. Dick has added some new lines to the show, some that'll stop you dead in your tracks. In one scene Nixon calls the conviction of John Ehrlichman "a blot on justice." That's sort of like Adolf Hitler calling Eichmann's conviction "a crime against human decency." Just another example of Dick's fantastic sense of humor ("peace with honor" is still his funniest line, though). This...
None of these complaints diminishes the success the Riverside has scored. The essays do not constitute a major blot on the book, just a failure to reach the level of the text, the general introduction, the notes, and the refreshingly unfamiliar illustrations. Houghton-Mifflin hopes that the Riverside will replace the Pelican as the standard one-volume college Shakespeare. The Riverside's greater bulk (it weights in at 36 oz. to the Pelican's 31 oz.) gives the plays more room and is easier to use and easier on the eyes than the Pelican. The choice of which edition...
...Square's double bill will probably be the mediocre Paper Chase, but it probably should be The Last American Hero, starring Jeff Bridges, a movie which was originally released for drive-ins, was highly praised by a number of critics, and has finally shown up in Cambridge. An ink blot in my mind has temporarily covered over my knowledge of other details of this film--which I never went out to the suburbs to see--and when I called Harvard Square, the theater staff pleaded similar amnesia...
...reveals that he had no intention of selling the land. Then, in a great, stormy, self-lacerating monologue, James explains why he is so hateful to himself. He had accompanied his mother's coffin on a tram from the West Coast to the East. Even drink could not blot out the pain of her death...
...State reasons they cannot be introduced into the case, the subpoena duces tecum would be useless. But if this be not apparent, if they may be important in the investigation, if they may be safely heard by the grand jury, if only in part, would it not be a blot on the page which records the judicial proceedings of this country, if, in a case of such serious import as this, the court did not at least call for an inspection of the evidence in chambers...