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...long as Brautigan stays light his talent for whimsy can carry him along. But when the jester feels it necessary to make a serious point his pretentiousness and predictability are unbearable. He stretches a tasteless metaphor about a 24-hour pig slaughter house into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only...
...February 25, 1971 report to Congress, President Nixon suggests that if Hanoi and the PRG ever become "seriously" interested in negotiation, "We could find a way to reach a solution fair for all parties." In the same paragraph of the same report, however, it is clearly Henry Kissinger who tells us that to find an appropriate and equitable means "to help" the South Vietnamese express their political will, "There is little guidance to be drawn from Vietnamese history...
...Theater last weekend, before a stink of cantankerous thrill-seekers (including many bolsheviks and "hippies"), was demonstration perhaps that he is rank only on film, and might live happily and successfully as ice cream man or door-to-door stockbroker. To betoken our good will, we have deleted from paragraph five a particularly gratuitous and leering reference to Barbra "Color Me Barbra" Streisand...
Bayh did not take his leave of the presidential campaign scene without a farewell review of the nation's ills-the rot of Viet Nam, the fact of 5,000,000 unemployed Americans. The room was still as he read his ten-paragraph withdrawal statement beneath television lights. Half a dozen of Bayh's Democratic Senate colleagues were on hand -Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Iowa's Harold Hughes, Minnesota's Walter Mondale, Missouri's Stuart Symington, Mississippi's John Stennis and Wisconsin's Gaylord Nelson. None of Bayh's erstwhile rivals...
...next day that state's attorney demanded that I be sentenced to two-and-one-half years, and in spite of Vogel's convincing defense that I didn't even belong under the Slave-trade paragraph, and that at most I should be remonstrated for giving Elizabeth escape tips and that on one in the West had put me up to it, the indictment stood. In my last word before the judge and two-man jury I simply told them that I took all the blame for anything that I or Elizabeth might have done, but that there...