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Further troop withdrawals may mute criticism in the U.S., but the war has lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
...great deal more than that for the rich man and the nonworking girl. A renaissance of bathrooms and bathing seems to be in progress rivaling the innovations of the most inventive Roman voluptuaries. This in a country where Benjamin Franklin was considered a radical for his habit of tubbing regularly, where bathing was once considered so alien that Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia debated legislation outlawing the practice as dangerous to health. It is also a country where the President's house had no bathtub at all until...
...apartment building who is watching TV until the distant day when "Marshal Petain is buried in Verdun"; an old school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion to borrow money; a neighborhood woman who makes feeble amorous advances, more out of habit than anything else; and a mysterious, silent young man whom all in the community assume to be a strangler (but, in fact, turns out to have an identity considerably more pathetic...
Some recent federally sponsored research indicates that women have a much harder time than men in kicking the habit. The percentage of women who smoke has declined only from 33.7% in 1964 to 32% now. In all, Horn estimates that of every ten smokers who attempt to drop the habit, four succeed. His surveys indicate that the number of youths aged 12 to 18 who smoke has risen by 1,000,000 in the past two years, to a total 4,000,000, or 15% of that age group. He says that this rise, which exceeded the proportionate increase...
...images." Sontag's first experience as a film director, however, indicates a reappraisal of the concrete cultural situation. Duet for Cannibals openly invites the interpretations that are inevitable anyway and uses them as traps, frustrating slaps in the face with each contradiction designed to break us of our interpretive habit (and of our humanist consciousness...