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...becomes, for this reason, unnecessarily oblique. Preparing herself for bed one evening, Karin takes a shard of glass and lacerates her genitals. Raising the frail white silk of her nightgown toward her waist, showing her husband the blood running down her thighs, she grins in triumph and with a hint of perverse satisfaction. Because we know so little of her husband, though, Karin's act is neither thoroughly motivated nor sufficiently provoked...
...view of the confidence inspired earlier by the Administration's report of progress, the credibility of Nixon and Kissinger is clearly on the line. Kissinger gave no hint of that as he laid all of the blame for delay on Hanoi. He charged that Hanoi had suddenly begun raising "one frivolous issue after another." Tho and his associates would agree on a point, then retract it or try to make substantive alterations "in the guise of linguistic changes...
...months of legal appeals in which he contended that a Federal grand jury could not rights ask him, nor force him under threat of imprisonment to reveal the sources on which he drew during the course of academic research. At no time during this period would the government hint at its objectives in asking Popkin's knowledge of persons implicated in the leak of the Pentagon study. At no time would it bend in its determination to extract this information nor would its attorneys specify the relevance of Popkin's testimony...
...unique victory because of his demonstrated political skills and the weakness of his opponent. But he said little in the course of the campaign to give anyone an idea of what to expect in the next four years. Shortly before his reelection, however, he did drop a suggestive hint. He told an interviewer that he would like to be thought of as a "Disraeli conservative" with a "strong foreign policy, strong adherence to basic values that the nation believes in, combined with reform, reform that will work, not reform that destroys...
...Yorker cartoons without pictures? Indeed, nearly all the stories first appeared in that magazine. At times Barthelme even dabbles in the first-person plural as if he were spoofing the "We" of The Talk of the Town. Only once does he break tone and give a hint of the robust tall-tale telling of his native Texas. He describes his grandfather, who, with good looks and a bottle of Teamster's Early Grave, convinced a conservation-minded wood nymph to transform herself "into one million board feet of one-by-ten of the very poorest quality neatly stacked...