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...your cover story on Attica, you say: "They passed around clandestine writings of their own; among them was a poem written by an unknown prisoner, crude but touching in its would-be heroic style...
Fundamentally, Nixon and Kissinger have made the seemingly extraordinary decision that America's power position in Asia can be enhanced by the active inclusion of the People's Republic at the world bargaining table. Crude formulations such as "containment" and "isolation" are no longer considered effective tools of America's foreign policy. Nixon and Kissinger expect that more subtle and fluid alliances between the big four nations of Russia, Japan, China, and America will characterize national interests during this...
...deep that Roman engineers had no way of clearing them of water. After that, says the geochemist, "it was like being bled to death without knowing that one was bleeding." The result was the gradual disappearance of Roman coins and the return to an unwieldy barter system too crude to sustain the empire...
...conclusions and characterizations are, of course, elementary. And the film is, photographically, very crude. Despite all this, the fact that the experience is filmed head-on carries with it a definite educational value, and some visceral impact. (The gasmask test and hand-to-hand combat training sequences are inevitable stunners). Basic Training does something well-suited to television: it presents events in all their surface complexity, with only the barest contextual or human fabric to support or explain them (thus skirting issues of interpretation). The verite approach doesn't make for art, or even sophisticated social commentary. But unless...
Next day the Saigon police chief confirmed what many had already suspected: most of the mob outside the church had been government militiamen. In a crude attempt to justify the attack, he said that McGovern had been unwittingly meeting with "Viet Cong agents." The Senator's demand for an apology from Thieu went coldly unheeded...