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...much ideas as their loudmouthed idiot cousin -publicity-that helped soften the verdict. It began to seem that it was not Abbott and his admitted homicide that were on trial but, in a vague and sloppy way, the entire American criminal justice system. The jury decided that the system had just been too much for Abbott. So the verdict was manslaughter. Abbott had been acting, the jury decided, under "extreme emotional disturbance." Sentencing comes next month. A judge of Solomonic gifts might condemn Abbott and Mailer to be shackled together with molybdenum chains, inseparable ever after, like Tony Curtis...
STRATEGICALLY, AS HAS BEEN SAID so often, the policy makes no sense. Whatever the ideological leanings of the rebels--and usually they lean toward the full stomach and the healthy body--we push them towards the idiot inflexibilities of Russia. We did it to Cuba; we are doing it to Nicaragua; almost surely we will do it to El Salvador, and then Guatemala, and then Honduras, and on and on. Poor countries need someone to help them out, and though the Cuban example has proven that reliance on Moscow and a totalitarian economy is not fiscally sound (and there...
...There's something about sitting against the wall," he says. "He's after something he loves--he's refining the one vision he has. A sculptor doesn't inhabit different people--he'd be an idiot. When a soccer player scores a goal, that's just him, the same guy it always...
Imagine their plight in 20 years. A little kid jumps on his daddy's knee and asks, "What did you do in the big game, Daddy?" Daddy says, "I ran around behind a group of girls jumping up and down like an idiot and yelling my fool head...
...directors of propaganda films produced by states, especially conventional socialist states with their idiot stress on the homogenized man, fill their frames with crowds, great agglomerations shot from above, or from behind as they cheer some arm-waving uniformed leader. If individuals appear, they represent stereotypes--broad smiles, broader biceps. But the camera in Workers '80 singles out men. Some have the handome Walesa look, bushy mustaches, broad shoulders; some are bignosed, homely, dirty, or dumb-looking; for the most part, just people. Workers standing, arms folded, listening to the negotiations over public address systems. Workers knelling to receive communion...