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...have confidence in the integrity of the Vice President," said Nixon, "and particularly in the performance of the duties that he has had as Vice President and as a candidate for Vice President." That seemed to leave rather large chunks of Agnew's past-indeed, his whole climb prior to becoming Nixon's running mate in 1968-for the Vice President to defend...
...many of Pennypacker's residents for scaling the building's outside wall, balancing on the inch-wide fourth-story fire-escape railing, and them chinning themselves onto the roof. The main attraction of being on the roof, as far as I could tell, was the opportunity it afforded for climbing down again. Sometimes I would sit on the fire-escape for an hour at a time, pretending to study and wondering whether or when someone would fall, and whether it would upset the Elks in the lodge across the street when he did. No one ever fell. Whenever I asked...
...part, the improvement constitutes a painful paradox: some of the same factors that are causing economic anguish within the U.S. are easing the aches abroad. The dollar devaluations have caused prices of imports to climb, but they have made U.S. products more competitive in world markets. Worldwide bidding for scarce commodities is shooting up prices, aggravating inflation in the U.S. and elsewhere, but also spurring exports and thus American income from foreign sales. Soaring U.S. interest rates are wounding borrowers inside the country, but also bringing home dollars that formerly fled overseas seeking higher investment yields. This repatriation of American...
Citizen Kane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother) Orson Welles...
Citizen Cane. Orsen Welles, Joseph Cotton, Agnes Moorehead. Maybe the great American movie. Welles plays a tycoon, modelled after William Randolph Hearst, whose spiralling climb to wealth and power is paralleled by his decline into emotional paralysis. This takes shape cinematically in ever deeper focus shots that oppress Welles ever smaller, ever less impotent and more isolated within the frame. Don't waste your time wondering about Rosebud (it is the name of his sled. Lost innocence, get it. Right, the only woman he ever loved was his mother). Orson Welles...