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...admitted. In the coming weeks and months of testimony, not a great deal more evidence will be needed to involve him directly and to make his position nearly untenable. Even if such evidence is not forthcoming, the steady hammering of questions and revelations, the unfolding on TV of the sordid details of moral corruption in the White House, will make it quite a problem for him to recover from Watergate...
...final decision came suddenly. He had not talked it over with Richard Nixon. After the President gave his speech on Watergate, Connally phoned his congratulations but avoided mentioning his own political plans. Next day he mulled over the speech, then made up his mind. "Watergate is a sordid mess," he explained at a press conference in a Houston bank, where he is a director. "But it was a silly, stupid, illegal act performed by individuals. The Republican Party didn...
...sordid complex of crime, tragedy, deception and irony known as the Watergate case could be subtitled "Nixon v. the Press." Last week the White House conceded defeat poignantly, if rather belatedly. First the President, in his televised address, credited "a vigorous free press" for helping to reveal the truth. After the speech, he told reporters to "continue to give me hell whenever you think I'm wrong." Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler the next day publicly apologized to the Washington Post for his past denunciations of the paper's Watergate coverage. Spiro Agnew followed with his own peace offering...
...production. Brando not only exuded animal magnetism but also conveyed the inarticulate dignity of an animal. In the current production, James Farentino seems like a deliberate lowbrow, a slob who relishes being a slob. He comes across as meanspirited, and the scene in which he ravishes Blanche becomes a sordid rape instead of the elemental encounter implied by "We've had this date with each other from the beginning...
Mind you, he never uses the word syphilis. His mother obliquely informs him that his pitiable fate is a hereditary legacy from his late father, a sordid libertine. The height of Victorianism (1881) was not the best possible time to treat such matters on a public stage, and the vituperative abuse heaped on Ibsen for his effrontery has probably never been equaled in the history of drama...