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...verse with a vivaciously comic sense for awkward syntax and incongruous internal rhyme. Boudin writes for the ear at least as well as she writes for the eye. And her sense of nonsense saves the radical political themes of the poem from didacticism. An attempt at high seriousness would blunt the sting of the poem's political barbs, but irreverence sharpens them with a fitting context. A poet who can build an atmosphere of emotion in three short lines of a stanza, and then juxtapose two words in a way that completes the emotional setting while slyly turning against...
...Dilatation and curettage, usually done under general anesthesia, has long been used within the first twelve weeks. The cervix, or opening of the uterus, is dilated with a series of progressively larger sounds-thin, blunt-ended metal rods. Then the uterus itself is scraped with a dull-edged curette, a small spoon-shaped instrument, until all embryonic matter has been removed. The entire procedure can take as little as 15 minutes. When it is done under local anesthesia, it sometimes produces painful cramping, but many women can return to their homes or jobs only hours after it has been performed...
...Wait Until Dark, Playwright Frederick Knott used a series of ingenious devices to keep the killer and the audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That he does, but at the expense of taste. The two were not mutually exclusive in two previous Fleischer films...
Many sensed, however, that Meany had aimed his blunt criticism beyond its immediate mark. Said a Manhattan construction worker: "He's thinking of the overall problem, which he knows and I don't." Moreover, an increasing number repeated labor's ceaselessly argued point: that the Nixon program places an unfair burden on labor. C.L. Dennis, president of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks, pointed to perhaps the greatest disparity possible in a period of incomes policy. Says he: "Sure, I've got a few shares of stock myself. But it's wrong as hell to have fortunes made...
...speed up the search for a successor and retire this fall. The most likely contenders: Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 66, who now finds himself handicapped by an overly close identification with Sato's policies, and Minister of International Trade and Industry Kakuei Tanaka, 53, a blunt-spoken self-made man who has strong party support even though he is regarded as somewhat "unpredictable" in Japanese financial circles...