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Marty: "The guy in Elizabeth, huh...
...duologue has its unforgiving rules: "You have to give the other his turn, and you give signals during his turn, like saying 'uh huh' or laughing at what he says, to show that he is having his turn. You must also refrain from saying anything that really matters to you as a human being, as it would be regarded as an embarrassing intimacy." A near-perfect example of duologue is the televiewer, transfixed by that mesmeric eye. A truly perfect duologue would be two TV sets tuned in and facing each other...
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...Columnist Mike Royko mocked Nixon for having won a "mand," or "about half a mandate." A mand, Royko wrote, means something to the effect that "We've got to hire somebody for the job, so it might as well be you. But try not to mess things up, huh?" Drew Pearson, an inveterate Nixonphobe, tried to be considerably more damaging with a story-given in a speech rather than a column-that Nixon visited a psychiatrist some years ago because of his difficulty in standing up under pressure. Both a Nixon spokesman and the physician, a former internist...
...writing these letters for 20 years, and tells me that at least 200 of his chicks are now hitched to Americans and living in the States. He even writes letters to the mothers of these guys, and he tells me that's what really scores big. Weird deal, huh? Best...