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...style of The Little Theater, it might be better off if Renoir had insisted more on what he says in My Life and My Films about setting preceding character, or on what his bum tells a headwaiter astonished by his knowledge of fine champagne: "I'm just an idiot--but life teaches you things...
Nonetheless, even Giscard's supporters admit that the government has been maladroit in handling the present strike crisis. During early negotiations with the postal workers, Pierre Lelong, Secretary of State for the Postal Service, called the task of sorting mail "an idiot's job." The unions are now insisting that negotiations be carried on by Premier Jacques Chirac, on the ground that Lelong is incompetent. After last week's police attack on the picketers, it appears that both sides were occupying entrenched positions...
...hour of free-flowing improvisation and older tunes like "Idiot Bastard Son" and the classic "Oh No" made it clear that Zappa has not lost the skill of synthesizing a variety of musical thoughts into pure Zappa-esque composition. At the concert he also showed his remarkable skill in keeping the players in firm control while allowing them golden moments of freedom to explore their own musical ideas. His second set, unlike the first, undisputably displayed the real Zappa--a Zappa that was not present in Overnite Sensation or Apostrophe...
...Knights of Columbus building one afternoon after the work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only as a loquacious idiot, stood for half an hour stock-still with his mouth shut...
...something about them. Does the requirement for a fair trial mean then that all such cases must be dismissed? Surely not. Or that an impartial jury can be found only among the exceptionally oblivious? If so, then presumably Galley or the Watergate defendants could only be tried by twelve idiot cousins of Gomer Pyle. Says Columbia Law School Professor Abraham Sofaer: "No one has the right to get away with a crime that is so notorious everybody knows about...