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President Nixon got his in a mock news story read by Moyers. One passage: "After lunch, the President, in keeping with his policy of soliciting different views on major issues, held a discussion on Viet Nam with Joseph Alsop, William Buckley, William White and Bob Hope." Asked by other guests for his views on the role of a free press in a democracy, Nixon delivered "a vigorous 10-second response...
...Evelyn Hilary O'Rooley, the novel's bifocal, bivocal, bisexual narrator. Although E.H.O'R. can be anagrammed as HERO, the character is doubtful of its gender. Most accurately, (s)he is Miss Brophy's way of saying "I." It is a mock "I," however. As Miss Brophy notes in an aside: "I'm playing games, like a painter who includes in his picture a mirror in which he shows himself standing outside the picture painting...
Viet Cong fighters resent the intrusion of the Northerners, who often assume command positions despite their youth and inexperience. Delta peasants mock their strange accent, and resent their condescending manner. Captured Communist documents tell of locals who refuse to give shelter, medical treatment and even directions to Hanoi's soldiers. One document mentioned a shop owner who raised food prices 15% whenever a Northerner walked in. A defector interviewed by TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Marsh Clark said: "Not only was my unit not welcomed by the peasants; we weren't even allowed near them...
...there is blood on his back. ("The ancients must have had race problems, too," says Napoli.) Six serving women, each with one breast exposed, dance around the bier of their richly dressed mistress-celebrating rather than lamenting her death. In still another panel, two professional soldiers engage in mock combat, flourishing shields and spears...
...Ontario Anglican church worshipers raising their voices in hymns on Sunday morning. The lyrics are spiritual and timeless. In Robertson's The Weight, written for the group's first Capitol album, Music from Big Pink (1968) and heard in the movie Easy Rider, cascading lines of melody combine with mock-serious lyrics to bring an Old Testament character face to face with a 1970 rock musician...