Word: grindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leslie H. Gelb, chairman of the task force that managed it, in a court affidavit. He said that the people who worked on it were "uniformly bright and interested, although not always versed in the art of research. Of course, we all had our prejudices and axes to grind and these shine through clearly at times, but we tried, we think, to suppress or compensate for them. Writing history, especially where it blends into current events, is a treacherous exercise. We could not go into the minds of the decision makers. We often could not tell whether something happened because...
...died fighting against Thebes, and the city-state's tyrant, Creon, orders that the body lie unburied. Blind as his predecessor Oedipus, Creon unknowingly flouts the gods in his overweening pride. Moreover, Antigone is Oedipus' daughter. In Greek tragedy, the mills of the gods grind from generation to generation. Antigone buries her brother at the cost of her life, and Creon forfeits the lives of his son and his wife to the gods' anger...
...Government contends that the letters are authentic. If so, a kidnap plot certainly was discussed, although it is also clear that no violence to Kissinger was planned. The notion of kidnaping Kissinger and grilling him while cameras grind and tunnel explosions provide a sonic background seems a fanciful and irrational exercise for well-educated clerics. But to the Government, at least, the matter is too serious to be dismissed as the surrealistic musings of excited crusaders...
...Dennis has invented a situation with comic possibilities. At the start of the tourist season an earthquake transforms an Acapulco resort into an island rocked by storms. Both amenities and necessities swiftly disappear. As Dennis' caricatures try to cope with life in the raw, long-distance television cameras grind away from the shore, picking up every grisly move. The show, a modified Candid Camera, grows more and more popular as the castaways become more and more degraded. But the author, like the cameras, does not know when to stop. The only palatable personality in Dennis' dreary bunch...
...driving stoned, nearly wrecks his car, one wonders which side this book's on. Is it all a put-on? Most reviewers, like the one in the New York Times, thought the book was a plea to abolish anti-marijuana laws. But Peter Harkness, like the narrator of "They Grind Exceeding Small," antagonizes more than he convinces. The message of the book is not clear. What is clear is that every letter in Dealing is superimposed on a dollar sign. Like Crichton's other two efforts, this book is designed for one overriding purpose: to make money...