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Safire dazzlingly demonstrated a technique that might be called innuendo by question mark. He asked rhetorically: "What deals were made in secrecy to buy testimony? What bribes of freedom were offered, what coercion used to elicit accusations that might be perjurious? What officials were harassed for daring to criticize? What collusion was there to time indictments to the impeachment process, as in Mr. Connally's indictment on the day the 'abuse of power' article of impeachment was voted upon...
...objected to the line of testimony I was pursuing at which time I was obligated to make an offer of proof. I had no intention to characterize where I was going at that point. My intention at that point was simply to ask the questions and to try to elicit information, and then if the information bore it out make a reference in my written brief to what we had alleged in our earlier presentation...
...close-up of a brutal beating by vicious grunting thugs wielding chains and pipes. The violence, excerpted from a later sequence in the movie, immediately propels us into the career of Roberto Barrera, a national union leader who makes himself the subject of a mock kidnapping so as to elicit worker sympathy for himself at the upcoming union elections. Through a series of flashbacks, that film shows Barrera's rise from bomb-throwing revolutionary to corrupt union boss, from a principled, uncompromising factory worker to a power broker whose only interest is to fill his own pockets by playing...
...decades one of the special delights of childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...
...United Committee of Third World Organizations' petition drive in support of its 12-point plan for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute continued this week to elicit what one leader of the committee called "substantial support from students and Faculty...