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...indolence by harshly putting down hunger riots in the south of England. "I like what is tranquil and stable,'' he announced, and achieved tranquillity by hanging several of the leaders. He scoffed at earnest middle-class reformers, once received a group of them lounging on his sofa. While they talked, he pulled a feather out of a pillow, began to blow it about the room. "Try to do no good," Melbourne advised, "and then you won't get into any scrapes...
...have been subjected to the incantatory power of the Robbe-Grillet technique in the off-screen commentary he wrote for the narrator in Last Year at Marienbad (for some it had a soporific monotony). Objects are important to Robbe-Grillet in themselves, but also in relation to people. "A sofa cushion," he has explained, "may not be very exciting. But if you have a man and a woman in love at either end of the sofa, the cushion between them can take on all sorts of interest...
...telling how she and her advisory committee have redecorated the White House. Without notes or prompting, she showed a connoisseur's knowledge of every antique and objet d'art that came into view (only one scene had to be refilmed; Jackie momentarily confused a Dolley Madison sofa with one of Nelly Custis'). She easily rattled off the names of bygone artists and cabinetmakers, displayed an impressive knowledge of intimate White House history. The Green Room, she noted, "used to be the dining room, and here Jefferson gave his famous dinners and introduced such exotic foods as macaroni...
...Communist political parties had been that the Communist vote must be held down, else Moscow might demand the inclusion of Reds in the Finnish Cabinet. Without mentioning Russia, political advertisements boldly warned that a vote for the Communists was a vote for "dictatorship." Newspapers and broadcasters loudly urged "sofa loungers" to get out and vote, since a light turnout would only aid the efficiently mobilized Communist Party. The Reds fought hard: in northernmost Lapland, the Communists cornered almost all the local taxis to shuttle their supporters to the polls...
...Galbraith has an instinctive air of authority, can seem commanding even when he is relaxing on a sofa, his long frame folded into a lazy W. "Rightly or wrongly," he says, "I usually have a perfectly clear idea of what to do." He has always had a passion for politics and for the uses of power. His father, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a local Liberal Party leader at lona Station, Ont.; but he was as shy as he was tall (6 ft. 8 in., like his son), and never sought political office...