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...retrospect, Tory insiders cite two errors that brought Clark's government to its unexpectedly early demise. Explains one Tory: "We took far too long to get our act together." Elected in May, Clark did not summon Parliament until October, the biggest such delay by a newly elected government in Canadian history. Clark sensibly wanted to give his new ministers time to learn their way around the unfamiliar corridors of power, since the Tories had not been in office since 1963. But by the time Parliament met, the Tories were already plummeting in the polls...
...desperate to have this film work," his wife recalls. "He was like a string that would snap if it were pulled any tighter." Director Hal Ashby, knowing how much he needed assurances, tried to provide them, but in the midst of production could not always summon enough time or energy. Worse, Sellers found the principal location, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, N.C., cold and depressing in the winter. As usual, he found it impossible to leave his role on the set and walked around inside Chance's deadly placid character all the time, offering responses as bleak as the weather...
While Louise is given to poignant reflections, her constant visitor, Nora, is a bearer of upside-down cake and earthy common sense. They are bound together by unutterable aloneness, and they summon up the apparitions with a brief incantation about eternally unresting souls in order to have someone further to talk to. But after the apparitions have told their sad stories, the widows are chilled through their bones...
...made a wrong turn and headed east down a dirt road to Dike Bridge. After the accident, Kennedy said, he managed to struggle out of the submerged car. As his story goes, after several dives in an attempt to save Kopechne, he walked back to the cottage to summon two close aides, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham. They returned with him to the bridge and dived repeatedly but were unable to save Kopechne. Then they drove to the opposite end of Chappaquiddick, where, Kennedy said, he jumped into the water and battled a ferocious northward-flowing current to reach Edgartown...
...Disaffected peasants, artisans and Slavs, among others, began massing politically, demanding certainties and absolutes. Taking to the streets, they cared nothing for the hallowed liberal creed: "Wissen macht frei" (Knowledge makes us free). Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal saw what was happening: "Politics is magic. He who knows how to summon the forces from the deep, him will they follow." All too soon Wissen macht frei was degraded into the cruelly deceptive slogan of Nazi death camps: Arbeit [work] macht frei...