Word: magic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course I have no pushbutton solutions, no magic gimmicks," he said of Viet Nam. "But I pledge that if the war isn't over [this year], the new leadership will end the war and achieve peace in the Pacific." Exactly how? Nixon did not specify, but what he did say on the subject pointed toward military means rather than concessions to the Communists. Under Lyndon Johnson, he said, "we have wasted our military power by using it gradually instead of effectively." Further: "We can't withdraw. We've got to mobilize our effort. We can pull...
...father of the country's 25-year-old Democratic Party, he has a keen understanding of his people. He shuns flowery forensics and reads his speeches in a soft, professorial voice. Like any other wily African tribal chief, he also does nothing to discourage stories of his black-magic prowess, or rumors that he consults the sacred crocodiles in his palace pond...
...boat out. So, at 52, he quit his job and started his own business-renting boats and teaching sailing to overworked executives. Waller's income is now less than his former income tax, but he laughs at Who's Who for dropping him, extolls the magic effect on his marriage. "Why," he says, "we fell in love...
...from what it is to see what it could do. To see the potential in it all. To take a note and wreck it and see in that note what else there is in it, that a simple act like distorting has caused. It's all trying to create magic, it's all trying to make things happen so that you don't know why they've happened...
...needn't worry about the plot. The intrigue of Desire lies in what happens to what is happening. To get at the potential of Anastasia Vote, the ineffable potential of magic and mystery, Hunter destroys the narrative form, that apple-pie order march of elements we all know and love--elements like time, cause and effect, motivation (spell it out, son), resolution. Yes, they all break down. (Like the junkyard, like Anastasia--you've got it now, BREAKDOWN is the theme.) The threads of plot tempt you to join a surrealistic scavenger hunt. Don't. Don't fumble about...