Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE. If the White House was not seeking silence and was not trying to conceal the involvement of high officials, it would have been under no obligation to help defendants who had created such a politically embarrassing mess. The surreptitious delivery was strong evidence that all those involved knew it was wrong. The contrary claims seem to be belated efforts to avoid criminal prosecution...
...possibly penetrate all of the levels of this great metaphysical mess. Surely, traditional critical approaches are useless. Gardner has demonstrated in his novels his disapproval of rendering the world as it is. Grendel set about to reshape the Beowulf epic into the same philosophical query, using the skeptical monster as its prime agent. The small scale of that work, and its ingenius conception made it much more approachable. The came the Sunlight Dialogues, a very lengthy piece of prose with over 100 characters. Here, a great conglomeration of metaphysics is structured along the lines of a modern Grail Quest...
...than half of them have criticized Nixon in terms ranging from "Unfortunate" to "He should be committed," while about one-fifth have supported the President. Roughly 15% claim the press and/or TIME are prejudiced against Nixon. And some readers just throw up their hands in despair over the whole mess. "Is there no other news in the world?" one of them asked...
...lunch in the White House mess in 25 minutes," lamented a White House aide last week. "Everybody is afraid to talk. So the only thing you can do is bury your head in your soup...
...Capra directs. Starring Gregory Peck, Peter Lorry and someone who looks like Boris Karloff. About a family of crazies--the aunts kill lonely old men for charity, the convict escapee nephew kills for profit, the son thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. And they all run around in a chaotic mess of slamming doors and confused criminality. Brattle Theatre...