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...Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting at life's underlying absurdities. Her crude remarks on sex unleash in Bachelor Andres a flood of feeling he never knew he had. Her chatter about death, "like raising the lid halfway on a multitude of potential horrors," brings him up short against a fact he cannot face, finally drives him insane too. In short, before she kicks off herself, Elisa...
...Paksane, 100 miles to the northeast, advanced on Vientiane to reinforce Bounleut. His troops were scattered by "yellow" artillery fire with a loss of three dead. Phoumi Nosavan then appeared in the capital in full battle dress, announced that unless Kouprasith ended his siege of Bounleut, he would unleash Siho's police. Kouprasith answered with an artillery and mortar barrage, whereupon Bounleut and his men switched sides, exchanging their blue kerchiefs for yellow...
...Night Walker is a lukewarm bloodbath, but it does afford Veteran Horrorist Barbara Stanwyck a chance to unleash her hysteria as of yore...
...four minutes into his demand for "law and order in this nation," he betrayed his ennui, one might say world sadness; the teleprompter stopped, so did Goldwater, and for one long moment his eyes went up and back into his mind, slowly searching for the key phrase which would unleash a mindless string of sentences to sustain him until he could switch back to the safety of the moving words...
...then running for the G.O.P. presidential nomination himself, asked: "What does it mean to be a conservative? Does it mean you must be a trigger-happy dreamer in a world that wants from America not slogans but sane leadership?" Again, Scranton said of Goldwater: "He says the decision to unleash nuclear war should be made not by the President but by the commanders in the field...