Word: nixon
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...take on a funk-tinged hip hop song, it would’ve been fine. But such cannot be the case with the cinematic music video: the song is interrupted by an extraordinarily unfunny interlude in which West comments on his infamous remarks about the president (here symbolized by Nixon) and two women with afros berate him for being with a white girl (Pamela Anderson).If all of this accomplishes anything, it’s to illustrate the difference between a movie and a music video. When a character dies at the end of a movie, I usually cry. Here...
...panels are so volatile that half a dozen editors regularly run the strip on the editorial page. Sometimes they don't run it at all. The Los Angeles Times yanked a 1972 Trudeau strip about a diplomatic visit by Nixon and Kissinger to a distant and alien land: [the poor Los Angeles neighborhood of] Watts ... Trudeau's most inspired excess was the Nixon-era strip in which Radical Disk Jockey Mark Slackmeyer ends a surprisingly fair "Watergate Profile" of John Mitchell with the remark that "everything known to date could lead one to conclude that he's guilty. That...
...Writing about the campaign when it was all over, Richard Nixon admitted that there was "one incident?which, in retrospect, might have been avoided or at least better handled." Despite a civil rights record he was proud of, he did not have any comment on the case. Like John Kennedy, Nixon was desperately trying to figure out how to attract northern black voters without alienating southern white ones. And so he decided the best course was to say nothing...
...country had little idea what had occurred. But Coretta King, alight with gratitude, told her family and friends, who told others, who spread the word. Dr. King's father, Martin Luther King Sr., himself a renowned Baptist preacher, had come out a few weeks before for Vice President Nixon, mainly on religious grounds. But this episode was enough too convince him that he could vote for a Catholic candidate after all. "Because this man was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes" he said, "I've got a suitcase of votes, and I'm going...
...shortest tenure of any dean of the Faculty in recent memory was that of John T. Dunlop, who served from 1970 to 1973 and resigned to replace Donald Rumsfeld as head of the Cost of Living Council in the Nixon administration...