Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mobilizing support for a compromise had been the main goal of Strauss's Middle East trip, Aug. 16 to Aug. 20, but he had found none. The Israelis now regard 242 as sacrosanct, and they rejected any plan to tamper with or modify...
Strauss slowly consolidated his power. He started receiving scores of calls from Jewish leaders who used to deal directly with State. Begin and Sadat were in direct touch with him. Strauss thought things were going fine when he got into his plane for the trip to Egypt and Jerusalem...
...White House did not bother to disguise the fact that the trip was at least partly a campaign tour but insisted that it was "not a partisan campaign for Democrats or me," in Carter's words, but a journey to promote the President's energy program. At every stop, while the calliope tooted God Bless America, Carter preached a new energy ethic, in simplistic terms. Saving energy, he insisted over and over, is "exciting" and "enjoyable," not "inconvenient" or "painful." In folksy, fervent lectures, he urged people to insulate their houses, drive less, observe the 55-m.p.h. speed...
Everywhere, Carter turned the trip into a revivalist gathering down by the riverside. The standard line, which never failed to win roars of approval: "How many of you believe we live in the greatest nation on earth? . . . If you will help me, we can make the greatest nation on earth even greater...
...ending fails not only intellectually but also as plain theater. Like the apocalyptic space journey in Kubrick's very similarly structured 2001: A Space Odyssey, Willard's journey is designed as a psychedelic trip. Each stop along the way is meant to be more phantasmagoric than the last. In 2001, Kubrick successfully escalated his film at each stage, even topping the seemingly unbeatable light show with a more bizarre finale. Coppola, while creating progressively weirder war scenes, runs dry before he reaches his crucial imaginative leap: Kurtz's fastidiously designed compound looks as tame...