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...audience inside, sheltered from the sub-zero wind-chill cold that the protesters endured, didn't seem to believe that, though. Most politely applauded Colby when he finished. They listened patiently when he explained the necessity for gathering information about other countries. They did not offer dissent when he said that he tried to reform the CIA in 1973, before the sensational revelations about assassinations of foreign leaders, deals with Mafia hit-men, domestic spying...
...tints my world...Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh" And the mush Janet who'd "only ever kissed before" seems to have forgotten her proper lines as the horror-story heroine; just as Frank's sonic transducer warps time, the visitors' old values distort: "Thrill me, chill me, fulfill me/Creature of the night" Janet sings when the traditional script would demand her to call "Stop!" Listen to this record with your aged aunt who bemoans the fact that "You young people don't appreciate musicals any more." Maybe she'll sing along with "Time Warp...
...Soviets are opting for at least a temporary chill on relations with the U.S., they do so with more military muscle than ever before. Moscow has not only been rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal, it has also increased its conventional forces so that it is today questionable whether NATO troops would be able to thwart a Russian thrust into Central Europe...
What a shame then, that no sooner had the decorations gone up than there arose one of those chill Cambridge winter winds, and all the mylar became shredded and began to fall into the street...
...onstage alone to soliloquize about what has occurred and what bad results may be expected. Occasional modernisms ("A cheap shot," "Say the magic word," "I had gotten through to him") clink absurdly, and it is hard, when they do, to imagine the pharaoh's golden barge ghosting through chill nights on the Nile. Yet a patient reader is rewarded by some provocative notions about Akhenaten and his cousin-wife Nefertiti. the royal beauty whose sculpted head is, after the Sphinx, the best-known work of Egyptian...