Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less and hungry look appropriate to an official in the Russian bureaucracy, but his hunger is for entertainment (or, at one point, food), rather than power, and his foppish manner belies initial impressions. Nourished by the town's mistaken flattery, Khlestakov's age expends as his imperious manner is fed as he deludes himself by the lies he concocts to increase his importance in the eyes of the locals...
...always following the same strategy. Tom (Frederic Forrest) takes a tumble on his first ride, and Red offers high odds on the next event. The cowboys eagerly plunk their money down, and Tom rides flawlessly. It is a profitable little con, but Tom had something more conventional in mind. Fed up, he finally deserts Red and becomes a main attraction at the "big shows" like Pendleton and Odessa. Called "Killer" because he rides the horses way past the sound of the buzzer until they finally drop dead from the strain, Tom takes out all his rage and self-contempt...
...says Castaneda, "come from our unwillingness to look at other cultures in their own terms. So we ask the wrong questions. In our world Don Juan's acts and experiences don't happen. They are impossible. They conflict with the description of reality we've been fed since we were little babies. So Don Juan just seems a crazy old Indian. But in his world, his way of knowledge is superb and absolutely congruous. My task was to grasp the units of meaning proper to sorcery, and learn Don Juan's way of describing the world...
With peace in the offing and a Nixon landslide likely, why had so many demonstrators turned out? The suspicion that the Administration intended to renege on a reasonable agreement fed much of their frustration. After seven years of marches and rallies, people just could not believe that this would be the last antiwar demonstration...
...will be a winning campaign in the sense of warning the ruling class that we are fed up with their exploitation both here and abroad...