Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's departure weaken the presidency? Will future Presidents have to operate with one wary eye on the polls and the opposition in Congress, not to mention the press, because the precedent now exists that a President can be overthrown? On the contrary: it was Nixon himself who foreshortened the constitutional process out of a realization that the case against him was overwhelming. By resigning, he conceded the inevitability of impeachment and conviction. Anyone who argues that Nixon was hounded unjustly from office has a quarrel not with Nixon's enemies but with the U.S. Constitution, for the Constitution would...
...took less than his share and made friends in both parties. No arm twister, he was a patter and a hugger. "It's the damndest thing," mused Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Joe D. Waggonner Jr. "Jerry just puts an arm around a colleague or looks him in the eye, says, 'I don't need your vote,' and gets it." Adds Edward F. Derwinski, an Illinois Republican, "Jerry is an open tactician. He doesn't look for clever ways to sneak in behind you. He does the obvious, which is usually common sense...
...been the President's first choice, Ford had the right look to Nixon. He had never wavered in his loyalty to the President; ever since they had both been junior members of Congress, they had got along. Some cynics felt that the appointment was more Machiavellian than met the eye. With no experience in foreign affairs and no proven capacity for administration, Ford might make people think twice about dumping even a tainted Nixon. Very soon, though, Ford's candor loomed larger than Nixon's experience...
...Plot. Thomas tells this startling tale with style through the journals of one Lovatt Frazier, a young Highlander who is wounded at Quebec, and then in Virginia joins Prince Charlie's court. Frazier has a gift for language ("Colonel Byrd, a man of vast parade") and a sharp eye for cracks in fine facades ("It seems that Mr. Randolph would declare for King James if only the King would then make nun comfortable in the office of attorney general"). The diarist, it develops, had the rare good luck to overhear a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Colonel George Washington...
...Sleep, playing this week at the Brattle, is one of the most confusing detective movies you'd ever hope to see. Humphrey Bogart stars as Philip Marlow, the ubiquitous private eye created by novelist Raymond Chandler and recreated by many an actor--though none so well as Bogart himself. Howard Hawks made this film in 1946, Betty Bacall and Dorothy Malone costar. William Faulkner took Chandler's novel, cleaned it up a bit and made its story even more obscure, and turned it into a screenplay. The L.A. shots are pretty good...