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...prints that defied the Hollywood wasp-waisted ideal. They sat with legs widespread in mockery of Propriety and wore tattered jeans to taunt Ladylike Deportment. And they stopped shaving and stopped bathing to exult in the smells they trailed in the air. Rebellion against the Look was merely the easiest way to protest the Role, since the Look, be it slickfigured or heavy-breasted, was primed for seduction, for capitalizing on your assigned status as a sex object. It was this objecthood, having one's identity consigned to the status of an object, that Feminism reared up against. Because objecthood...
...knew what I knew. I had no fear of being tripped up in crossexamination. Really, to tell the truth is the easiest thing in the world...
...which is meant simply that this is one gutless movie. It plays its easiest hands. What is fatal to Live and Let Die is the assumption that the audience will accept it at face value; the movie demands not attention but acquiesence. There is not a spontaneous moment to be found; every act, down to each chase and tribal Caribbean voodoo ritual is choreographed. In fact, the real star is dancer Geoffrey Holder, whose grace and rich Jamaican voice lend spirit to the voodoo scenes, and authenticity elsewhere...
...well be, on the other hand, that Nixon is fully aware of the importance of Watergate but is following some strategy all his own. According to the theory that he outlined in his 1962 book Six Crises: "The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision-whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment...
...Watergate speech was disconcertingly ambivalent. Nixon resorted to an odd and habitual rhetorical device, explaining?as he often has done in his past speeches on Viet Nam?that he was rejecting "the easiest course" and pursuing the more difficult one. In this case, "the easiest course would be for me to blame those to whom I delegated the responsibility to run the campaign." Placing the entire blame on subordinates, however, would not have been the easier course?because it would not have washed. To avoid accepting responsibility for the actions of so many men acting in his name would have...