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...women can have but none can hold, the supreme stud who infallibly provides the ultimate fuck. Everybody knows just enough about the courtly playboy to create such a puppet; few have enough information to flesh out a human individual, Giacomo Casanova of Venice. For art and imagination's sake, so much the better; a real person is too eccentric to be the plaything of a world's fantasy. But the marionette Casanova, everyone makes and manipulates...
...idly by while Carter and congressional Democratic leaders work out a legislative agenda. Said Rhodes: "I promise you that when we are in opposition-and we may be from time to time-we will be as vigorous as we can, but we will not oppose for the sake of opposition alone...
...rather lightly. One of the oldest objects in it, a lean and time-scarred funerary horse, was made in China late in the Eastern Chou dynasty, some 2,200 years ago; the more recent works include a scholar's writing box and an incised sign from a sake shop in 19th century Japan. The works are predominantly Buddhist, although there are two or three exceptional Shinto cult objects. The stylistic range is also very broad. Some of the pieces are, in essence, conventional religious decoration -like the spectacular head of a horned dragon (see color page), its jaws rippling...
...sake of realism, refugees from Saigon were dressed in black pajamas, and a Philippine aborigine tribe was brought down from the mountains to portray Montagnards. As camera crews shot around them, they went about their everyday lives of working, eating and even giving birth. Since the Pentagon threw up its hands at the antiwar, antiArmy script, Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former...
...writes that things got worse as Nixon carried out a more systematic campaign to intimidate television network heads. Instant analyses disappeared and comment was flattened. This reaction was predictable, given the balance sheet. Television's profits are huge; few corporate heads are willing to jeopardize those profits for the sake of hard-hitting commentary and in-depth reporting...