Word: shredding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RESTRICTED by social pressure, the "savage journey" accelerates downward, focussing Duke's attentions on a degraded physical level. Eating, drinking, and fouling like the rest, he somehow manages to retain a shred of self-respect. It alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze...
...told me to shred the documents and 'deep-six' the briefcase. I asked him what he meant by deep-six. He leaned back in his chair and said: 'You drive across the river on your way home at night, don't you? Well, when you cross over the bridge on your way home, just toss the briefcase into the river.' I told him in a joking manner that I would bring the materials over to him and he could take care of them because he also crossed the river on his way home. He said no thank you." Ehrlichman, asked...
Superfly TNT is at least a shred more believable. It shows some flashes of hard wit and has a good, coarse sense of the criminal trades. Priest (Ron O'Neal), former street hustler and cocaine pusher, is now in residence in Rome with his fine woman (Sheila Frazier), living high but a little aimlessly. What finally gets him interested is the plight of a West African nation fighting for independence against a repressive colonial regime. In return for a leather pouch full of diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets...
...secretary at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Though she displayed what Senator Joseph Montoya called a "hazy memory," she recalled that she had typed "maybe eight" Democratic telephone conversations that had been tapped at Watergate. When the plot was discovered, she helped her boss shred any paper with his handwriting on it. Then she fed her own notebook into the machine. But she testified that she could not remember ever saying that she had committed perjury for Liddy, as charged by two depositions in the Democrats' suit...
...City, one of the least memorable, we watch a stifling process of human degradation symbolized by the desperate, random violence of tank-town prizefighting. Fat City is about a bunch of losers dying in spirit by slow, murderous inches. It lacks any substantial portion of compassion, however, any shred of insight to lift it above the level of a slumming expedition...