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...Wellington uses; the youthful student or amateur will at least learn the elementary strategies of the period and enjoy an eagle's view of the battle that changed Europe's life. As for the golden history and legend, they lie buried beneath this delayed replay of a primer on strategy...
...involuted politics compressed into the twelve-part series fuddled British audiences, and even Alistair Cooke, who opens each episode with a primer for Yanks, seems a mite confused. Viewers are just as well off ignoring the incomprehensible Popish Plot and other games of succession to concentrate on the sexual politics and the wigs-off look at the life-style of the 17th and 18th century British court. It is perfectly clear, for instance, why Churchill came home from Continental wars so lovelorn that he dove into bed with Sarah without taking time to remove his spurs...
...conspirator who would not be tried under this indictment. The grand jury was quite specific about one intriguing point ?that the conspirators had aimed to enter an underground tunnel system in Washington that carries heating pipes and blow them up, using "destructive devices consisting of dynamite, 'plastic explosive,' primer cord and detonating devices which had not been registered to them in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record." The little-known, 16-mile labyrinthine tunnel network in Washington is practically a New World version of the sewers of Paris?and potentially equally useful to an American maquisard. The steam...
...President has clearly got the message that the economy badly needs a dose of stimulation if unemployment is to be cut substantially by 1972. Politically, Nixon has little choice but to accept deficit spending as an economic pump primer, however offensive the notion of unbalanced budgets is to orthodox Republican economics. "I am now a Keynesian," he confessed shyly after the TV conversation -which led ABC's Howard K. Smith, one of his interlocutors, to observe later: "That is a little like a Christian Crusader saying, 'All things considered, I think Mohammed was right...
...package a mawkish screenplay into a "promo" for the movie even before it is released. If the literary residue has all the integrity of Newspeak, it reads so quickly that you finish before you really begin. By eliminating antique appendages like adjectives and adverbs, Segal created the Evelyn Wood Primer without the Evelyn Wood course. His novel naturally made the critics apoplectic. What more serious writers hoped to develop-the cinematic novel-Segal achieved rather grossly in a pulp classic that has more blackouts than Laugh-In or Meander. The GWTW Margaret Mitchell shouldn't be living at this hour...