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...Bender's offspring are in their ways almost as unhelpful as these strangers. Her daughter Valerie (Heather Tobias, in the movie's only overwrought, misjudged performance) can buy everything but common sense and fills life's emptiness with a riot of ugly possessions. Her son Cyril (Philip Davis) has gone the opposite route. He is a leftover leftist who cannot abandon the habit of Marxist analysis but is unable to believe any longer in its power to effect change...
When she tried to get on line with our neighbor, a near riot ensued. The attackers demanded that my roommate get to end of the line. She acquiesced. When they finally calmed down, one of them suggested that she might obtain a good spot on the line in exchange for certain sexual favors...
Sometimes, when Baker tired of conveying the handlers' no yet again, he flat-out rebelled. "Once, when Bush thought he could go the kinder-gentler route exclusively, we asked Jimmy to read him the riot act again," says Roger Ailes, Bush's media adviser. "That was one of the few times I've ever seen him blow up. He said, 'You call him yourselves. You're not the ones who have to carry that message and have him say, 'If you're so smart, Jimmy, how come I'm the one who's Vice President...
...that rumbled forward to confirm Hubert Horatio Humphrey as its nominee. Between the two sides: heavily armed National Guardsmen and the burly, blue- shirted Chicago police, the armed forces of Mayor Richard C. Daley, whose clubbing and gassing of demonstrators brought a new term into the American lexicon -- "police riot." When the beating and rock throwing stopped, the Democratic Party lay in ruins. An alarmed Middle America turned its attention to Miami where the Republicans, unbeleaguered by the Armies of the Night, hoisted Richard Milhous Nixon toward the Presidency. The era of the Silent Majority was about to begin...
...NASA in 1968: "We are at the onset of a program of space flights that will extend through many generations." Since then, there have been other triumphs and other disasters. Yet the wonder of that lunar vista has remained a lure and an accomplishment, a sign that amid riot, war and discontent, something was still worth striving...