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...markedly increase after the Viet Nam War, he could not resist telling reporters that the peace dividend would be as "evanescent as the morning mists over San Clemente." White House economists had to reassure the nation that the potential dividend was not all that evanescent. He is also an inept administrator. Partly to make White House operations more orderly, partly to relieve Moynihan of bureaucratic routine, Nixon recently elevated him to a Cabinet-level Counsellor-and took away his staff...
Viewers-and the Satyricon's satyrs -periodically struggle upward toward the light, as if trying to wake from the sleep of reason. Unhappily, the light fails, for almost all the main characters are inept performers whose unmarked faces cannot register more than satiety and fatigue. The fault lies partly with the director. In the Fellini version, the actors literally performed by saying the numbers. "It was a multilingual cast," says the maestro. "So instead of having them speak dialogue, I often just had them count one, two, three." Hiram Keller, recruited from the Broadway production of Hair to play...
Antonioni's effort is undercut to an even greater degree by the most inept cast he has ever used. Daria Halprin brings a supremely beautiful body, a maddenigly erotic bearing, and a ridiculously forced monotone to her lead role. Her youth is only physical. She speaks as if reading cue cards and says "hee-hee-hee" very quickly in her highest voice when she has to laugh...
...early in the second period. the Crimson defense began to slip into lapses that gradually became longer and longer. At the five-minute mark, all five Cornell skaters moved into the Crimson zone, and as a capacity Lynah Rink crowd howled and an inept Crimson defense blundered, kept the puck there for well over a minute. At 6:35, Fullan poked it past Darno out of a scramble, and Cornell was ahead again...
What happened? Students battled with police, they shouted down and insulted professors, disrupted classes daily, took over rooms and amphitheaters, and scandalized a cabinet minister who came to dedicate a new swimming pool. The inept response of the administration and faculty heightened the tension and psychological insecurity which reigned at Nanterre...