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...anyone imagine that such a trial could bring the nation back on an even keel and steady course, that it could fail to hurt the presidency itself? The impeachment process cannot possibly resolve the crisis. It can only exacerbate it still more, with reverberations that will be felt not only through 1976 but for many years beyond...
...even keel is projecting faint disgust at everyone and everything in every movie; he even breathes half-sarcastically, jaded beyond belief. Here it's not a world-wise jaded: the landscape of his face is as dissipated as the roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical...
...sound as if they were concocted by Gordon Liddy. One zany plot called for poisoning the Communion Hosts at the village church in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where De Gaulle attended Mass. The idea was discarded after the plotters realized that the first person to receive a Host would keel over dead and give the scheme away. And there was no way to guarantee that De Gaulle would be first at the Communion rail...
...force him to give some intelligence, he gambled that none of the officers present understood English and wrote nonsense after each question. Navy Captain James Stockdale never broke. Asked for information about U.S. ships, he drew a picture of an aircraft carrier with a swimming pool and 300-ft. keel. Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain III once listed the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers as the members of his squadron...
Transformed Lives. Methadone prevents withdrawal symptoms when the addict stops using heroin. Swallowed in individually regulated doses, it keeps him on an even keel without producing either euphoria or lassitude. It also helps suppress his craving for drugs-and keeps the addict from getting high on heroin if he tries going back to it. Most important, stabilizing an addict on methadone often brings his previously buried emotional problems to the surface where they can be treated...