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...revision of contemporary history. He admits being aware of the use of the CIA to halt the FBI inquiry, but makes it seem all his subordinates' doing, with the president as a bunker-isolated entity to be told of the progress of campaigns off somewhere on distant Eastern Fronts. This may have been true, though the tapes dispute it. No rationale for such a complete alienation of the Compleat Politician from his own campaign is given, nor is it admitted. Of the 18-1/2 minute gap, Nixon can only limply state, "I do not know...
...kibbutzniks try to liven up the mood a bit by telling jokes and bawdy stories. But the humor falls short, turning black and morbid. "If we're killed, at least we won't have to do kitchen duty anymore," one volunteer cracks. In the background we hear the distant but continuous sound of the Palestinian rockets...
...Japan and the Soviet Union Such Distant Neighbors? Factors Underlying the "Northern Territories" Problem--Hiroshi Kimura from George Washington University, Seminar room 3, Coolidge Hall, 1737 Cambridge...
...supporting cast of usually excellent players. His action sequences, strikes, and strong-arm stuff in the early days of the union are congealed. When he is not having Cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs bathe the hard times in the golden glow of false nostalgia, his moviemaking is without dynamics. Vague and distant, it offers a succession of clichés instead of a concrete sense of the class or the lives the film is pretending to examine. About all that can be said for "F.I.S.T." is that it does for the employees what junk like The Betsy did for the employers: trash...
...Crimson defense, viciously anchored by Haywood Miller and Mike Kennedy, totally shut off the Tigers' inside game, and by the fourth quarter had the frustrated boys from New Jersey throwing up unanswered prayer-bombs from distant suburbs of the crease...