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...novel go through more than the usual torments that may or may not be signs of God's devastating love. But what an indulgence for the reader. Temporarily, at least, everybody can sidestep this fall's avalanche of novels-many of them apparently the work of rude boys rubbing sticks together to make fire-and enjoy a Promethean storyteller at work...
...last question, another rude one, was whether Nixon felt he owed "an apology to the American people" for lying about the bombing of Cambodia. Nixon snapped: "Certainly not." He added: "I think the American people are very thankful that the President ordered what was necessary to save the lives of their men and shorten this war -which he found when he got here, and which he ended." On that ringing note, he closed the press conference, walking briskly away even as U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas was uttering the traditional words "Thank you, Mr. President...
...there were the Rude Ones who'd slam down the phone with a snarl that usually had to do with my being just like all the others. Now I'd heard about "Cliffie bitches." I kept a lookout for them vowing to be different. But here I was fitting right into the groove--lacking the experience then to know it as a groove carefully carved...
WHAT is really unacceptable in the vocabulary of the polite is talk of the aggressive war in Vietnam. Similarly, when antiwar students greeted President Johnson with chants of "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?", even the most antiwar liberal commentators deemed this a rude address, bereft of the reverence befitting the President...
...sells a million, too bad. But how the music thrives; it is said that Jamaicans believe nothing that doesn't come through the transistor. That is probably true. In fact, do this: take three nights and: see The Wailers, see The Harder They Come, read an article on Rude Boys in he current Rolling Stone. It's all true, and the music pulls no punches. Paul's Mall, through Sunday...