Word: shame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Condon, no black humorist but an eyeball-red one in the great, ranting days of The Manchurian Candidate and The Oldest Confession, seems to be stirring faintly back to life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until his eyes watered, then he blew it out slowly. He grinned...
...heart attack," the aging man in front of me said humorously, his woman companion trying mournfully to smile) the car would have more dents than Cleon Jones's wallet, and the angry man would have gone off crying, hopeless, forlorn, hanging his once-proud head in shame, like Shoeless Joe Jackson at the Black Sox trial. Why--who--how could he have left the car there, this of all days? After a while the kids started throwing rocks at passing trucks, but since it wasn't a demonstration the cops stood by benignly and only the car got hurt...
...Shame on you for favorably publicizing the traffic outlaws who run the Cannonball Dash [May 5] and subject a lot of non-contestants to risks that should go only with one of the world's most dangerous sports...
Ives is an unfamiliar face, which seems a shame. While everyone else involved with The Reincarnation of Peter Proud falls victim to the prevailing foolishness, Ives moves gamely ahead...
...American bombers destroyed hospitals and homes. The war could never offer us a reason for pride, as it could, perhaps, for Vietnamese who played a part in defeating the strongest power in the world. To us, citizens within that strongest power, the war could only be a reason for shame...