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...bright-looking students, flocking around Lindsay as if his first name were Vachel, were the most obvious departure from the usual hack-packed New York mayoralty-campaign headquarters. But, beyond that, there was a notable shortage of G.O.P. professionals, big or little. To blur his party markings, Lindsay had asked all Republicans of national consequence to stay away. "I don't need officialdom to build me up," he said. "I don't think the public will vote for me just because a distinguished person says they should...
Confusingly, Giulietta's perceptions grow so extravagantly heightened that they blur the line between reality and fantasy, and depolarization occurs. The rich, constantly bedazzling frieze of effects finally becomes an end in itself, resulting in a curiously empty drama. Instead of deepening the character of his heroine as he intends, Fellini overwhelms her, for the thousand-and-one-nights imagery he has flung pell-mell upon the screen seems organic only to his own turbulent imagination. Though Juliet of the Spirits offers bizarre and enticing spectacle, it is transparently a gaudy intellectual shell game that expends awesome amounts...
...generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense of familial responsibility to blur his ethics on expense accounts and income taxes, but he also recognizes that no one can paddle a family canoe in the idyllic recesses of Walden Pond...
...entered by government forces for years First Guam-based B-52s blasted the sides of the target. Then, swooping in over startled water buffaloes and silent paddies, helicopters brought in troops of the 173rd U.S. Airborne and the Royal Australian Regiment. The clearing in the trees was soon a blur of yellow red and green flare smoke, darting transport choppers, and prowling Cobras (armed helicopters). A battery of the Royal New Zealand Artillery moved up by truck. Finally, as a heavy rain began to fall, the Vietnamese paratroopers swooped down among the rubber trees in the biggest parachute assault...
...European on the panel. Edgardo Bartoli of Italy, characterised his country's attitude to wards America's Vietnamese policy as "a blur, but a blur that is generally in favor of United States intervention...