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...latest word from the sexual frontier? It may be "retreat." Though there is little likelihood that things will ever go back to where they were 30 years ago, the signs are that the sexual avant-garde-those who practice "swinging," group sex, open marriage, bisexuality and the odder forms of experiment-is in decline...
...Coincidence. There is yet an odder coincidence about the gifts. The second installment was paid to him, Rebozo testified, on July 3, 1970, at Nixon's San Clemente home. On the same date, committee sources said, Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, another close presidential pal, were concluding a deal for the purchase of 2.9 acres of Nixon's San Clemente property, apparently to help the President finance his lavish estate. According to the same sources, the purchase price of that parcel of land was exactly $100,000. Rebozo denied that any of the Hughes money was used...
Eagleton's sudden rise and fall in national Democratic politics was one of the odder chapters of recent American politics, surely sufficiently swift to give any man the psychic bends. In his cheeriness, there was some suggestion that Eagleton himself might have had doubts about his ability to take the strain. But overall, he endured his abrupt anointment and excommunication with thoroughbred resilience. As he left the Senate after his final session with McGovern, Eagleton insisted upon shaking hands with a dozen onlookers on the street: "Goodnight folks. Vote for McGovern...
...fresh proof of the immorality of the entire Viet Nam involvement. The war's supporters on the right read in the verdict a repudiation of the valor and honor of all American fighting men in Viet Nam. If the alliance was odd, the effect might be odder still. It was too soon to be certain, but there was seemingly a new readiness, born of disgust and weariness on both sides, to hasten the end of American participation in Indochina...
Barthelme's settings are even odder than the characters who inhabit them. Barthelme writes about a country named Paraguay. It is not in South America; it is a neverland where everybody has the same fingerprints and sexual intercourse occurs only when the temperature is between 66° and 69° Fahrenheit...