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...Paulina's husband, "I charged thee that she should not come about me," and then adds, sotto voce, "I knew she would." He also managers to ring true when he strips to the waist, takes off his crown and grovels on the floor while encouraging Paulina to tongue-lash him. Again and again, when he is not even speaking, we can see the character thinking...
...chiselers and crime in the streets had become respectable-but were being pre-empted by more respectable candidates. Carter asked Southern audiences: "Why send a message when you can send a President?" Wallace, who knows but will never admit that he cannot reach the Oval Office, began to lash out with some of his old meanness...
Will has written a number of columns about one of his favorite subjects, New York City, calling it a "fiscal drunk" that "will reform only under the lash of necessity" and arguing that it is "a little welfare state, and that is why it is a shambles, and a welfare case." He still opposes aid to the city, and has consistently praised Ford for his position against it, at least until Ford reversed himself in November. "I think bankruptcy would have been better," he says. "And I own some New York bonds, so I have an interest in saving them...
There seems no practical way for a free country to go about deliberately reducing the chances of producing lonely, disoriented individuals who lash out at a President to fulfill some antisocial personal need. The nation's recent political traumas, especially the Viet Nam War and Watergate, may have heightened passions about its leaders and dissatisfaction with its systems. Political rhetoric may have been inflated enough at times to be inflammatory. Certainly, any such excesses need to be curbed. But Gerald Ford in particular has clearly lowered the level of intensity in his public speeches; if anything, he threatens to lull...
...presidential campaign begins to quicken, and the candidates become more prominent, the threat can come from anywhere at any time. Some of the worst products of American society can suddenly lash out at some of the best. The most harrowing warning came from Squeaky Fromme herself. In the documentary Manson, she coolly pointed out: "Anybody can kill anybody...