Word: dulles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years since his Paris days some outrageous and inflamatory--and sometimes dull--680-word satires have rolled off his typewriter. But Buchwald thinks the news that appears in the papers every day is much stranger than anything he creates. Some examples...
...white, and the spectrum of colors take on certain meanings. The observer in the "Towers" project stares out from his isolated chromatic house onto a Europe that is systematic and monochromatic. Inversions of color enhance the disturbing effect of the images--in one scene the earth fades to a dull gray, the sky flames orange...
...glimpse into the journalism of the Neanderthal Right. "Ku Klux Klan Calls For:" and then, in 144-point type, "WHITE UNITY." The lead article, written by Mr. Wilkinson, urges whites to "unite and reclaim our country and bring an end to black crime." Otherwise, it is a fairly dull treatise on liberal social schemes, affirmative action, "blood money" sent to Israel, and welfare. More interesting is the other front-page story, which calls on youngsters ten to 17 years old to join the Klan Youth Corps. "Uptight about schools... or just about Negroes!!!" Have you 'had it' with blacks following...
...special men, he manages to find the most detached examples for his observation. Early in career, he profiled Dollar Bill Bradley, one of the four or five greatest college basketball players of all time. A decent man, a hard-working man, a disciplined man, in the last analysis a dull man. McPhee celebrates the cerebral boredom that marked Bradley's game-"He dislikes flam-boyance, and, unlike some of basketball's greatest stars, has apparently never made a move merely to attract attention...Bradley calls practically all men 'Mister' whose age exceeds his won by more than a couple...
...gentlemanly about losing.") to the ludicrous (Korda: "...That is the nature of the Human Animal, right? I mean your own father, if he could find a way of cheating you in business, probably would...That's the way people are. I don't think you can beat that."). Dull as it is, Ah, Men is admittedly informative, especially in the area of men's attitudes toward relationships...