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...peace talks, the formal meetings at Paris' Hotel Majestic have been counterpointed by private sessions between the U.S. and North Vietnamese delegates. These in turn have apparently influenced Hanoi's conduct of the war. In nearly six months since the talks started, there have been three distinct phases before the present hopeful...
Only three months ago a prime candidate for the Republican vice-presidential nomination, John Vliet Lindsay, 46, the 103rd Mayor of New York and the holder of the second toughest political post in the U.S., was faced with the distinct prospect of political repudiation. The city's 2,000,000 Jews, once a cornerstone of his constituency, had turned cool and often hostile. Jeers greeted his name at synagogues; "hate mail" came into his office. City Hall became a fortress against an angry city, and Lindsay spent more and more time at Gracie Mansion, the city's elegant...
...second half of When the Living Gets Better features a sound track which is positively creative, and need not apologize for being only quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...
After less than two years in office, Ramsey Clark has become one of the most controversial Attorney Generals in U.S. history. He has become a favorite whipping boy for the people who believe that the nation is coddling criminals, and a distinct issue in the 1968 presidential campaign...
...what is an absolutely insoluble contradiction: being practical and reasonable is impossible if I am to retain any shreds of sanity or honesty. Is a time of "saving" cities by destroying them one when a thinking person can sit on the sidelines and be "reasonable"? I would suggest a distinct and, if you will, moral "no." In this instance principle and expediency have become mutually exclusive...