Word: threatenings
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...sitting in Tommy's when I noticed a couple of tough-looking white people evidently not students, harassing a gay Harvard student (I'll call him D) and his friends. Next I watched one of the thugs grab D by the collar and threaten to beat him up. At that point a Black Harvard student (E) came to D's aid and tried to usher the thug out of Tommy's. Push came to shove and a genuine brawl broke out. E was aided by an Adams House tutor and an employee of Tommy...
...everything has been done in too much slow motion. When you threaten, you must act fast; if not, the other side will have time to build up, to get used to the idea and to develop alternatives. Gradual escalation is the most dangerous course because it allows the other side to match you little step by little step. And when you have finally reached the end of the process, though any one step might have sounded minor, the accumulation of them is massive...
...commutes from his Manhattan office to his mother's house in suburban Westchester County. He usually arrives late because he spends the evenings with his mistress Nina in the city. At home, his children grow aimless and petulant. Visions of Peter Frampton fill Mary's head and threaten her chances of passing a summer-school English course. Obese John Joel's idea of a perfect day is: "Have Mary out of the house. Have the air conditioner on and read comics. No big deal...
THERE IS A CONSTANT undercurrent in this film, background monologues that threaten to convert Our Hitler into a polemic, recordings of speeches by Hitler, Goebbels, Goering. The props, the voices, the music (mostly Wagner, Beethoven, Mozart and Nazi Party songs) play off each other to produce the ideological confusion that is the character of this film, that was also Nazi Germany...
...dismal news drives deeper the public's conviction that the economy is in a profound and morose crisis. Feverish inflation, previously a rare malady limited primarily to wartime, has become chronic. Price spurts once associated with profligate banana republics are now common to North America and Western Europe and threaten the foundations of democratic societies. With every sign showing that prices in the U.S. will continue soaring even as the nation begins slumping into recession, President Carter, his re-election jeopardized by the economy more than by anything else, is stuck in an economic morass...