Word: puzzlement
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There was some puzzlement, because Klein, a Nixon friend and adviser from the earliest days of the President-elect's political career, is not assuming the more traditional role of White House press secretary. That job will be filled by Ronald Ziegler, 29, a former California advertising account executive (Disneyland was his chief project) with neither political nor journalistic experience. Unlike Ike's James Hagerty or L.B.J.'s Bill Moyers and George Christian, Ziegler has never been close to his boss, and is not expected to participate in the high counsels of government...
...effort to turn the hearings into a circus, proved more puerile and vulgar than satirical or funny. The gap between the two sides seemed limitless. As the yippies followed Rubin out in one of their periodic protests, South Carolina's Congressman Albert Watson asked Police Witness Grubisic in puzzlement, "How can you account for people following anyone like that?" Grubisic could only shake his head and reply: "I don't know, other than that they're different...
...professional performer could hope to match the direct simplicity of their response to the tragedy that surrounds them. Best of all is Marc Pico, a young French documentary-film director making his debut as an actor. I He does not so much play Antonio as become him, reflecting with puzzlement and pain the bitter reality of a man who sees himself turning slowly into an imprisoned object...
That Old Black Magic. So begins what must be the most unpleasant pregnancy on record. Mia Farrow seems to grow more sickly and emaciated the more her stomach swells, but she is built for the part of Rosemary and her skillful progression from pain to puzzlement to panic goes far beyond mere looks. The film's most memorable performance, though, is turned in by Veteran Ruth Gordon as the coarse and cozily evil Minnie Castevet-sniffing for information like a questing rodent, forcing Rosemary to drink her satanic tonics of herbs, dispensing that old Black Magic that she knows...
...says Simon. "Nobody says, 'If you want to know what I think talk to Simon & Garfunkel.' Everybody has got his own ideas. I don't consider myself a poet. I'm a songwriter. I'm not interested in puzzling people for the sake of puzzlement. I like what I say to be heard and understood...