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Then pardon-me-whilst-Ah-whup-this-out Tim clickety-clacked the first two lines. In the ol' kontry tradition...
There were other concerns as well. Massachusetts' Rufus King thought that impeachment would compromise the separation and independence of "the three great departments of Government." But "if he be not impeachable whilst in office," worried North Carolina's William Richardson Davie, "he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself re-elected...
...Union should not be used to justify those inflicted on the Malgaches in the French Empire. Herein lies the thrust of his "unsparing" and Olympian demolition of Camus who adopted a partisan Cold War attitude on these problems: In support of the absolute right to liberation of the Hungarians whilst denying such a right to the Algerians. Camus, in any event, has no need for illiterate defenders who, lacking his considerable abilities, still crudely soldier on in the cause of the Cold...
...with baroque ornaments and fussy camerawork. Thus he films Sunday Bloody Sunday with the same extraneous decorations. Faces are continually shot in reflection, or through objects; juxtapositions are sophomoric -the camera pans down from a poverty poster to a refrigerator brimming with food; posh automobiles wheel around London streets, whilst the radio barks of economic crises...
...have noted, Watson, in The Adventure of the Empty House, that after my disappearance, I wandered for two years throughout Tibet spending some time with the High Lama. Whilst in that country, I studied the space-time continuum and learned to forecast the future...