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...different: it is of the Americans waffling over whether to disarm the Somalis and whether to move into the north or stay put, combined with demands to start getting out almost as soon as they got in. The alleged U.S. dithering at one point caused the Secretary-General to exclaim, "All my experience tells me not to trust the U.S. You are unpredictable and change your minds too often!" Whoever is right, the discord was an unhappy omen of future trouble...
...paid for it and precisely what staggering profit he expected to realize." But the similarity between Chartwell and the L.B.J. Ranch was evident in more than these details. Johnson's visitors, Alsop recalled, "have the same feeling that visitors to Chartwell have -- that they are expected, nay, commanded, to exclaim and to admire." A certain kind of country seat provides a President with the chance to impose his expansive, extraordinary personality on others; a condo on Hilton Head would somehow lack something in this regard...
...Carlo Martino, a.k.a. Funkalumpagus, kept hope alive, jumping onstage to exclaim, "It's too funky in here!" and leading a chant of "We want the Monk." The anticipation mounted as Peter Stepek, a.k.a. Jedi Master Miracle Man, took the microphone at the end of "Funkmove" and announced the entrance of the bearer of a "sublime message to the people," the "Missionary Monk Messiah." To no one's surprise, the "Monk" turned out to be none other than Norcott. Famed for his rubber wranglings with the Harvard Police over a piece of poultry with sentimental value, the Chicken Man was most...
...even Welles couldn't shake Hollywood free of its romantic realism. It held then; it holds today. Except that now the old glamour has atrophied into formula: boy's adventures and ghost stories and lady-in-distress thrillers. When was the last time a Hollywood picture moved anyone to exclaim, "Well, I've never seen that before!"? Perhaps surprise is not on the menu of today's moviegoers. They want reassurance, domestic fairy tales come true, not the astonishment that Jean Cocteau demanded...
...with those who praised his inventiveness: "Some critics have referred to a strange violent 'seedy' region of the mind (why did I ever popularize that last adjective?) which they call Greeneland, and I have sometimes wondered whether they go round the world blinkered. 'This is Indochina,' I want to exclaim, 'this is Mexico, this is Sierra Leone carefully and accurately described.' " But on his journeys the author carried a transforming talent and temperament that rendered all the places, no matter how meticulously portrayed, not only seedy but unmistakably Greeneland...