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It has to do with modulation. Altman likes to use microphones so that conversations overlap, swirling in and around each other fast enough that you don't follow any of them but you're getting them all. What you're catching is the way the energy of a room works...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Froot Loops and Moot Points | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

Nonetheless, Death Wish is dangerous, because it exploits what might even be considered a legitimate fear of assault while conveniently perpetrating an unintelligent fallacy. And this fallacy is uglier than the stupid assumptions that the city is a hellish place or that killing muggers cuts the assault rate. This is...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Home, Home and Deranged | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

Then the legacy of peace suddenly became uppermost in Nixon's mind, and in the minds of all these men. Haig, Kissinger and the others wanted to save that much for Nixon. If there was to be an epitaph, Nixon wanted it thus. Kissinger emerged to tell the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Trying to Ensure an Epitaph | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

Until Watergate, on the other hand, liberals half believed that Nixon's new incarnations meant a pattern of growth. They disliked him, but they also tried to perceive over the years a man successively shucking off his earlier gut-fighting instinct, his narrow antiCommunism, becoming more

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NIXON YEARS: DOWN FROM THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINTOP | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

While Sontag's examination of Jewish suffering is occasioned by the highest motives, it is a disaster as a political act. Whether she means for this to happen is irrelevant. She does not understand the situation well enough to know that the point at which she ends, the suffering of...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: A Breach of Promise | 8/9/1974 | See Source »

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