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...urban statuary, giving a much needed accent to the wide expanse of Embarcadero Plaza. But the furious Vaillancourt refuses to admit that there can be any separation of art from politics. "I am a very emotional man," he explained. "It is all the same thing." Then, prodding his middle finger upward in the direction of the speakers' platform, he added: "And if they do not like it, f- them...
...were women, he finds a sexual basis to much of the conflict. Women resent the bra-lessness and supposed bed hopping of today's coeds. Men seem to envy a sexual freedom they did not know as youths. Nothing quite so enraged Guardsmen, Michener claims, as the middle-finger gestures of Kent girls, their obscenities, their appearing naked at dormitory windows to invite the troops to "make love...
...demonstrations only indirectly. They read about numbers and violence in the newspapers. Like the body counts from Vietnam. however, such reports pale in comparison to direct experience. In the past week these congressmen have been directly confronted by veterans, many of them crippled, asking why and pointing the finger of blame and anguish. The re-actions were visible on the congressmen's faces...
...Army's Uncle Sam no longer waves a bony finger from recruiting posters announcing 1 WANT YOU. Now youths of varied backgrounds, including cowboys and football players, appear with a new slogan: TODAY'S ARMY WANTS TO JOIN YOU. The prime-time TV spots show hay dropping over snowbound Oklahoma from Army helicopters to save starving cattle, and a salesman touting the "750-h.p., air-cooled, 12-cylinder" wonders of an Army tank, which a youthful customer promptly "buys" and drives proudly offscreen. In the ad Army, no one is asked to kill the implacable foe or save...
...that point, one vet broke from the march, pointed a finger in her face, and drawled, "Listen lady, I'd like you to know I'm directly descended from Martha Costa Washington, and I want you to know Vietnam is so full of shit, you can pack it and shuck it." The woman harrumphed...