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...fact that nobody can venture to say with any authority what it means to be a woman. In 1969 we suffered from a footlose uncertainty about the goals of Women's Liberation, so we clutched at the movement for self-definition. And we used that political identity as a crutch for a queasy feeling personal identity to hang on to and steer by. We felt plagued by our inability to define 'woman,' frustrated by the fact that we could say only what 'woman' was not. But definition limits prematurely, and I think it was precisely the de-definition that prevented...
...chief, Colonel Tran Van Nhut, has managed to set up a system of rice rationing. Bags of rice are handed across a wire fence to those who can come to get them. When a wizened man with a stump of a leg hobbles up, he cannot quite negotiate his crutch and his rice. He collapses in a heap, trying to figure out some way of fastening his ration to his loincloth...
...generally have supported the wage-price freeze and controls. However, there is a warning note to be sounded here. A great number of Americans might say, "Let's continue to have the controls." I don't want that, because if our people and this economy get used to that crutch, we will never throw it away...
...film has barely begun before Harris is attacked by a grizzly. Badly mauled, Harris is left for dead by the other members of his expedition, under the command of salty old Captain Henry (John Huston). He vows revenge. After virtually resurrecting himself, he hunts up some food, whittles a crutch, constructs a spear and strikes out overland in search of retribution...
...outsider, unknown to the French security forces eventually unleashed against him. He begins the assignment in the reading room of the British Museum, boning up on De Gaulle's habits, and ends it-with a clutch of false papers and a hunting rifle disguised as an aluminum crutch-in a room on Paris' Rue de Rennes overlooking a liberation day ceremony...