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...Those were considerable. Explaining his struggle to deal with ego damage during the years of his failure and Barbra's tremendous success, Gould says: "First of all, I came to those years with a minimum of ego. I was fighting. The first time I saw Tarzan get stuck in quicksand, I got anxiety and used to walk around locked to make sure there was no quicksand. My analyst said I was a masochist...
...years. Water mains would burst, elevators stop and power lines topple. At least one of the area's 228 dams and reservoirs would give way. Countless Bay Area buildings would sink into the shifting alluvial soils on which they have carelessly been built; such soil can turn into quicksand during a quake. The entire region would be cut off from outside aid, as freeways, bridges and runways buckled and railway tracks twisted. Deaths would reach the hundreds-some say tens of thousands-and property damage some $30 billion...
...elephant trapped in quicksand" is the way Indira Gandhi sometimes describes her ruling Congress Party. During the past few years, the party's dismal performance makes that description seem particularly apt. Indian voters have turned against the once all-powerful Congress Party. In the 1967 state elections, for example, the party lost control of four key states-Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and the Punjab. In last February's midterm elections in those states, Congress failed to regain its old supremacy. Last week the party developed new troubles: an open power struggle in the leadership...
...austere and inflexible Desai in Indira's favor because he has little voter appeal. But in the event they do, the outcome of a no-confidence motion against Indira might well tear Congress apart. By any odds, the party seemed more firmly stuck in India's political quicksand than ever...
...order any member of the House of Representatives, any officer of the House or any employee of the House to do or not to do any act related to the organization of membership of that House would be for the court to crash through a political thicket into political quicksand...