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...civil law. Actually, the use of the term martial law was really unwise, illadvised. But whether you call it emergency rule, or a one-party system, as they have in other countries, the thing is that the martial law you speak of, which the Western world may find so odious, is not the same type of martial law that we have here...
...foreign policy. The U.S. could try instigating more responsible policies than paranoically giving massive subsidies to the power-puffed, heavy-handed Shah. I could avoid alienating practices such as shoring up Pol Pot, (whose administration did not fall so much as it rotted out from beneath him) in an odious attempt to expiate the unforgivable acts of the U.S. relations with "non-priority" countries like Mexico, earning the resentment and distrust of yet another country when its reserves of oil suddenly turned a brusque President into a kneeling suitor...
...were there earthquakes, but the usually sun-washed Kona coast was lashed by heavy rains that set back filming and added another $2 million to the $20 million budgeted. Bisset and Newman, during one interruption in the shooting, were caught by photographers making comparisons that were more odd than odious...
...have to get a "better" wife. "Belle would be O.K. for Labor or Agriculture," someone advises Gold, "but not for Secretary of State or Defense." And Gold's aspiration is to follow in the footsteps of Henry Kissinger, even though Gold considers him "an odious shlump" and a "shallow, socialite warmonger." Says Heller innocently: "I don't think Kissinger should mind my portrayal. Everyone knows how grateful he is for criticism...
...Caliban might seem shapely. His head had the circumference of a normal man's waist, and the bone structure occluded one eye and twisted his mouth into a slobbering aperture. A spongy cauliflower-shaped mass on the back of his head and other body growths gave off an odious suppuration. His hip was deformed, and he could scarcely walk. Only his left arm and his genitals were unmarred. So grotesque was Merrick's body, in fact, that he was banned from appearing in sideshows, for a time his only means of livelihood...