Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLS succeeds, in the end, in making his point, about Nixon, and about America. The book is too long, and at times disorganized; Wills is forced at the end, to include a summary of the major arguments in the book, just to remind the reader of what he's read. But the topic is fascinating, and Wills has ideas which never occurred to other writers. This book is the product of his disenchantment with America, and with its politics. Unfortunately, its length, and the fuzziness of its writing, seem to guarantee that it will not be widely read. Most...
...LAST POETS are three blacks-Abiodun Oyewole, Alafia Pudim, and Omar Ben Hassen. And they want to say something to all you niggers out there in the country. (To you who may be the Last Niggers.) They'd like to remind you once again about rats and roaches, about black children with puffed-up faces and tracks in their arms. Then once more they'd like to remind you of revolution...
...Syrian force was pulled back quickly and with reportedly heavy losses. But it stayed around long enough to remind the world that the Syrians are still the biggest blusterers and brinkmen in the Middle East. When Richard Nixon dubbed them the "crazies" of the Arab world during a recent briefing for Midwestern newspapermen, it was one of those rare assessments with which both Israeli and Arab leaders could agree...
...world the same vast resignation and distancing. Bergman devises his own special "alienation effect," with the actors speaking to the camera about what sort of person each character "is," as if they are universal givens. Whereas Brecht and Godard use the technique of actors speaking as themselves to remind the audience that it witnesses art as distinguished from life, Bergman attempts the opposite effect-to minimize the consideration of his stereotypes as isolated individuals, and to imply a higher reality, that the spectacle goes beyond mere portrayal, that his vision is life objectified...
Maybe "the kids in Harvard Square remind them too much of their own children," Zavelle added...