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...home is the White House. There he gets his hair cut, there he takes his laundry (giving rise to a Democratic gag: "Pat Nixon takes it down to the Potomac and beats it with a stick"). When he is not dining out, he eats in the White House mess. Nominally, he lives in a town house overlooking Rock Creek Park. As one of his occasional dates, Barbara Howar, put it: "The place looks like a Holiday Inn. The furniture is sort of Grand Rapids Motel. The one room that shows that somebody lives there is his library. The walls...
...Gag Rule...
When Ackermann refused Vellucci's request for early consideration of the order, Vellucci charged the mayor with "complete gag rule," and Danehy remarked that "this is government by cabal...
...only is the film a mixture of sentiment and politics, but also a mixture of silent and sound. One large gag based on sound--gurgling stomachs embarrassed Chaplin and a minister's wife when they are forced into close quarters--falls on its face. Chaplin's use of the camera is downright unimaginative, as are the sets. The one famous exception is the factory, and its expressionistic construction of cogs upon cogs and wheels within wheels. When the factory worker slides headlong down the conveyor belt into the bowels of the factory, the image of a human being slithering through...
...drunk who lies singing in a tunnel. They bloody Billyboy and his gang. They steal a Durango-95 and roar out into the countryside, running cars and pedestrians off the road. They pay "the old surprise visit" to a quiet home, force their way in, tie and gag the man of the house and rape his wife. Then, all feeling "a bit shagged and fagged and fashed," they retire once again to the Korova. After all, as Alex says, it has been "an evening of some small energy expenditures...