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...talked him out of it. On top of that, he's been getting no respect from potential voters watching JFK in Pennsylvania movie theaters. When it is mentioned in the film that a young Warren Commission lawyer named Arlen Specter dreamed up "the magic-bullet theory," viewers boo and hiss...
Buried somewhere in the left speaker of the Velvet Underground's "The Murder Mystery," Lou Reed speaks "with words nearly singed." In 1969 the phrase flew by, drowned out by the cascade of sounds--another lyric stereo right, the guitar riff, tape hiss...
...generations, Americans have largely defined their country and, to some extent, themselves in terms of the cold war. From McCarthyism to backyard bomb shelters, from the arms race to the space race, from Alger Hiss to the Marine spy scandal -- whatever else might have changed, the cold war abided. Moreover, it all too often metastasized into an honest-to-goodness shooting war, as in Korea and Vietnam. Now, however, only the most troglodytic right- wingers refuse to acknowledge that a new era has dawned. Says former CIA Director Richard Helms: "Years ago, when I was at the agency, from time...
foam-fields hiss...
Lasers embroidered the curtains with bursts of aquamarine and white to simulate lightning. An electronic hiss and crackle conjured up thunder. Billows of cloth suggested wind and rain, then fell away to reveal the swaying prow of a tempest-tossed Renaissance ship. Its captain shouted orders, wrestled with the wheel, tumbled into a make-believe sea and emerged a moment later as if dragging himself onto shore. He cried in triumph, "Sweet Jesus, I'm alive...