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...scene by Zonians-especially the 4,500 U.S. civilians who operate the canal; some of their families have lived there for three generations. Alarmed by the negotiations and by falling canal traffic, which is forcing economy cuts, the Zonians last week held a rare public protest to flay Kissinger and the Administration...
...style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism. In front of a microphone or over a dinner table, he can draw on a broad mental library of recondite words, literary and historical allusions and outlandish bits of jargon to taunt, flatter or flay adversaries. He has stormed the rostrum to denounce the General Assembly as "a theater of the absurd" and to dismiss reports on American imperialism as "rubbish." When something clear and pleasing emerges from U.N. newspeak, he quotes James Joyce to describe the rare phenomenon: "Its whatness leaps to us from the vestment...
...shifts. The road yawns in the windshield; the radio whips about the driver's seat. Pegging the van at a straight 65 mph cramps the calf muscles of my legs on the accelerator, so every hour I shift legs and sit cross-ways to the road. When tired I flay my head out against the air til blond rams my ears and road light blend into National Geographic nightscapes. Cultivating this weariness. I drive...
...brought. Said Kunstler, whose defense of Indian Activist Russell Means last year and the Chicago Seven in 1970 drew greater attention: "The case is too old. Attica is a painful subject, and most people want to stay away." Yet Showman Kunstler could not resist the temptation to flay witnesses and have a go at State Supreme Court Justice Gilbert H. King, who presided firmly. "I'm fed up with your telling me I have no conscience," said King, rejecting one ill-timed Kunstler motion for dismissal. "I have as much conscience, I think, as you have...
...Morning News show and again on a local Boston TV program. At 62 he is one of the oldest writers to get an assignment from Rolling Stone. Most journalists his age have the years gentle their pace or prejudices. Frazier is as eager as ever to flay those he thinks pompous...