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...have ever been when I was writing 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem,' " she wrote about the title piece of her brilliant 1968 collection. "The pain kept me awake at night and so for twenty and twenty-one hours a day I drank gin-and-hot-water to blunt the pain and took Dexedrine to blunt the gin and wrote the piece." Her new collection of magazine articles, The White Album, contains a disagreeably calculated column she wrote for LIFE in 1969. "I had better tell you where I am, and why," Didion begins. Uh oh. The student of Didion...
Fields was using Baby LeRoy's posterior to administer a blunt point of protest about the prevailing school of American movie acting, juvenile division. Chaplin had done his best to counter cuteness and establish a kind of enhanced naturalism when he cast Jackie Coogan...
...task of the nation's leaders in the '80s will be to rediscover new themes of purpose in American life. History, of course, may help by assailing the serene with some of its blunt instruments. As U.A.W. President Doug Eraser says, "It is almost impossible to get movement in our society unless there is absolute crisis ? it is a crisis leadership and a crisis government...
...angry phone call to the ex-dictator's $1 million, nine-room waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. According to Somoza, Christopher warned that if Urcuyo could not be persuaded to step down immediately, Somoza would no longer be welcome in the U.S. Chastened by Christopher's blunt talk, Somoza telephoned Urcuyo and ordered him to go along with the transition plan...
Distrust of secret trials runs deep in Anglo-American tradition. Long before the Court of Star Chamber was abolished in England in 1641, it had been widely recognized that without public scrutiny trials can be used as blunt instruments of persecution. Open trials provide more than the mere appearance of justice; they also help ensure that justice is done...