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...clearly and emphatically, that questions of hunger won't be solved as long as a septuagenarian Texan named W. A. Poage, who is more concerned with subsidizing farmers than with feeding children, is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. We Americans have woven a tight web of institutions that imprison us, limit our decision and scope. To imagine that enlightened conversation will change things is just wrong. You must administer a jolt...
Villains somehow look blacker and heroines fairer under that Caribbean sun. In 1897, on the eve of the U.S. intervention to free Cuba from Spain, the fairest of all heroines to North Americans was a rebel named Evangelina Cisneros-"this tenderly nurtured girl," the New York Journal mourned, "imprisoned at eighteen among the most depraved Negresses of Havana." In the flesh, Evangelina was a bloodthirsty lass who tried to kidnap a Spanish officer, but no matter. The Journal had her smuggled out of prison disguised as a sailor and exhibited her triumphantly at an open-air reception in Madison Square...
JANNINGS'S reduction to poverty and dependence on. Dietrich increases--but the settings do not begin to imprison him. They remain as deep and spacious as ever. Rather, his consciousness of their distance and illusory nature grows. On their very wedding night Dietrich separates herself from Jannings with a veil. His relation to her becomes more purely visual as he goes through hell; the scope of his experience grows and grows, his vision becomes stronger and clearer as his life changes. Finally he is forced to play a clown in his home town while Dietrich backstage messes with a young...
...prostitute and that he would "make it impossible for the United States to withdraw any of its support." On Feb. 6 of this year, in a speech in Go Cong which was reported by Duoc Nha Nam the following day. Mr. Thieu ordered the provincial chief to "arrest and imprison all monks and priests who talk politics and arouse the population." He also added, "We could die because of those factions who advocate peace and sympathize with the communists, those politicians who are helpful to the communists; but before we died, those people must die first...
Sleazy Charm. Tobey, of course, discovers Quigley's triplicity and decides to punish him with overindulgence. The three girls imprison Quigley in the attic of their dorm and proceed to visit him, one every hour. After endless days of lovemaking, with only an occasional rare steak or cup of yogurt to keep up his energy, Paxton is finally sprung from the attic and manages to tell Tobey what she wants to hear: the reasons for his capricious infidelity...