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...Masculine/Feminine every move of Jean-Luc Godard's camera or actors seems whimsical and capricious. The result is off-the-cuff brilliance with interruptions...
Bevel was happy enough with the way things went to suggest, off-the-cuff, that they march on the White House. Other Mobilization officials jumped at the idea and the date was set, May 17. They telegrammed President Johnson Monday night, telling him to get out of Vietnam in a month or get ready for visitors...
...formal public speeches-and minus retinue. He even left his wife Ethel home, traveled with just two U.S. newsmen and one unofficial aide, New York Attorney William vanden Heuvel. One left-at-home assistant was incredulous: "Who's paying the taxi drivers? Who's finding the cuff links?" Who, indeed? Kennedy arrived in Bonn with one cuff waving. These and other mishaps were minor, although he was obliged at the Oxford Union to detour via a ladies' lavatory to avoid some Viet Nam demonstrators. "God bless you," he told two startled girls...
Marcos responded by discarding a memorized four-paragraph speech for a longer, more emotional, off-the-cuff oration. The President of the Philippines paid feeling tribute to the President of the U.S.-who needs every encomium he can get. "We thank you for utilizing your powers with restraint and wisdom," said Marcos. "Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone." Thanking the U.S. for moving so swiftly after World War II to grant the Philippines independence after 48 years of colonial rule...
...into the oval office one day recently strutted a dapper dandy in brownish-grey toupee, cake makeup, Kings Man cologne, suede-and-'gator shoes, jeweled cuff links in the shape of a Jewish Torah, and a wristwatch with the letters of his name in place of the numerals. The watch spelled GEORGE JESSEL. The old vaudevillian briskly filled the President in on the war, assured him that he would waste no time in telling the world about the great job the boys were doing out there, and perhaps even winked a few funny lines at L.B.J. It was darn...