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...They didn't work there very long if they did. Oh, [Clark] Mollenhoff said no, and Pete Peterson did. Neither one could get near the Oval Office. Len Garment said no, in a mild way. Dick Kleindienst said no once. Arthur Burns. And John Connally had to leave because of his recommendations on how to handle Watergate. He just didn't have enough information...
...author suffers a mild lapse of malice in her view of Erica, the only figure in the novel not drawn in caricature. She is less villainous, but also less interesting, than Brian, Wendy and the Tates' two loathsome teen-age children, and Novelist Lurie does not really see this. Still, Erica has her moments. She befriends Wendy, by now pregnant, and convinces herself that this mewling muddle of saber-toothed helplessness represents Woman Wronged. Nothing will do, she announces, but that Brian divorce her and marry Wendy. This is horror at its most gothic-an intermittently tolerable mistress about...
...Bottles. The two physicians evolved a hypothesis: except for a few rare cases caused by chemical poisoning, the great epidemic of Parkinsonism resulted from something that happened long ago and then ceased. What was that something? Poskanzer has an idea: a mild, probably unrecognized infection with the virus of encephalitis lethargica back in the 1920s could have damaged certain brain cells; later, as the brain's chemistry was impaired with advancing age, the signs of Parkinson's began to appear...
...life in madhouses, dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886. One of his infrequent visitors wrote that though he was still plagued by "thick-coming horrors and portentous visions," Dadd was by then "a pleasant-visaged old man with a long and flowing snow-white beard with mild blue eyes that beam benignly through spectacles when in conversation, or turn up in reverie until their pupils are nearly lost to sight...
...Angela mistakes his occasional attempts to grab her for youthful high spirits and does not repulse them firmly enough. They form the basis for blackmail in which she is forced to cater humiliatingly to his voyeuristic whims. In true porn-movie style, these proceed up the scale from the mild to the wild, and since Antonelli is an astonishingly lovely creature, her misadventures have an inevitable, shall we say, subcultural interest...