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With this revelation, even the flimsiest rationale for the American air strikes fades away. The U.S. air strikes are clearly intended to intervene in a Cambodian civil dispute, and constitute an illegal and unwarranted interference in Cambodian internal affairs...
...college?" "I'm gonna be a homosexual."), but Weller's more concerned with exposing the evasions of commitment on which the put-on breeds. His characters can play straight-man for each other, but they cannot communicate any deep or pressing need. The superficial wit offers only the flimsiest of bridges over deeply troubled waters. One Boston critic complained that Moonchildren does injustice to the seriousness of the peace movement and other student causes by making too many jokes at their expense--but that is just the point. The more serious an issue the more fiercely these kids...
...attitudes are one thing, results another. Generally, the constructions are the flimsiest area of Wiley's art. His watercolors and oils are a different matter. The White Rhino Injured, 1966, is a marvel of surrealist compression: the unfortunate pachyderm's skin is reduced to several turns of gray, wrinkled hosepipe surrounding a block of white meat from which pink blood flows; it is a funky but hauntingly succinct image of vulnerability. "I'm a maze of information about reflections mirrored in opposites," begins the caption to his punningly titled Wizdumb Bridge, 1969, and the declaration fits...
Suddenly, all the activity stopped. Peking's Foreign Ministry last week told resident diplomats-but not the Chinese people-that the parade and customary evening fireworks had been canceled. The ministry offered only the flimsiest of excuses: that the parade had been called off "for reasons of economy" and that the National Day would be observed instead with small celebrations in "people's parks." In fact, the cancellation was the first public sign of an apparent convulsion in the Chinese leadership, which only recently has emerged from two decades of angry isolation from the rest of the world...
...relate this odyssey of torture only to you, soul of my life. Any other audience would surely call this the flimsiest piece of autistic nonsense since Green Mansions. Yours in despair of the bluebird of happiness...