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MOLLENHOFF did not intend to write a piece of "Watergate literature." He sees the Nixon experience as "simply a warning of what can still happen. When Nixon left, there was a tendency to put it all behind us, but we are not over that hump yet. It is important for everyone to learn a lesson, to understand that this was not just two young reporters from the Post, but that it took tremendous drive from a lot of people to bring it into the open--and that the investigation still would have fallen on its tail without John Sirica...
...Crimson has gotten over its annual hump. Now, alone at the top of the Ivies, Harvard is the team everybody else has to beat. The Crimson's destiny is in its own hands...
...grunts and stutters, but he comes from a culture which doesn't put much value on words anyway: the people who talk a lot in Shampoo are branded liars, most notably the imposed, looming presence's of Nixon and Agnew. George just wants to peel off his jeans and hump, hump, hump, and hump more. Strangely enough, all the women around seem to want to do the same thing. I don't want to hear anything more about Peter Fonda in Easy Rider--George the hairdresser is more interesting and significant if we're talking about byproducts of the sixties...
...ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call of Victor...
...wind sends whirlwinds of dust spinning frantically over the grassless strip of riverbank and single row of Monopoly board houses. Eventually, three or four boats, loaded to the brim, start off down the river to the estuary where the freight boat will dock. As they go behind the hump of sandbars, both water and boat disappear while heads and torsos are still visible. From across the river you are left with the impression of groups of Indians skateboarding along at top speed behind the sandbars, motionless from the waist...