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...Nixon appointee and middle-of-the-roader who will be replaced next October...
...even the middle-roader melodies like "Skin Deep" can't conceal the hard edges of old; a slight snarl lurks under Burnel's voice, even at its most unctuous. The eardrum-bursting sarcasm of songs like "Bring on the Nubiles" still lingers in the earlobe-singeing insinuations of bourgeois S&M in Punch & Judy...
Seldom have two captains been such good friends, had so much in common, and yet been so different. Not only are they different in appearance and personality, they also have divergent political leanings. Rippy is a self-styled "middle-of-the-roader," while McNulty says he's "more than a little conservative," calls his co-captain a "bleeding-heart liberal" and declares that "Felix often has to change his shirt, there is so much blood...
...Xiannian, 78, also a war hero; he has now been named officially President of China. He too carries memories. During the Great Terror, mobbed by the Red Guards, he was saved only by Chou En-lai's intercession. How can you attack this man as a "capitalist roader," asked Chou, when he is in charge of our aid to Viet Nam, where we are fighting American imperialism...
...short. Bill Lierman, the Rodeo Club's sponsor, recalled nothing untoward. Says Lierman: "He wasn't a rowdy. He got along fine with all the kids." And a sampling of schoolmates' reminiscences shows a consensus. David Wildman, the basketball captain, calls him "a middle-of-the-roader...