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...during the Watergate hearings was a tough task. Other non-unique stories that echoed the past passed with barely a ripple of eyebrows--Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton, Atlantis was rediscovered off Cadiz, Spain. Other biographies of Monroe had been done before and passed out of print without a whimper, and many questioned what Mailer had brought to the task that gave it such notoriety...
...effect is right. Waiting for death, as the four characters in Endgame are, why not expire with a gag rather than a whimper? Gregory captures that aspect of Beckett that is too frequently scanted, his Gaelic gallows humor, his fascination with vaudeville turns, his boozy way with a monologue that is pure barroom oneupmanship...
Still the troops came out, but not with a whimper. Nixon applied muscle. From the secret musings came not only the orders for the Cambodian invasion but for the excursion into Laos and then the ultimate shock, the mining of Haiphong Harbor and the renewed heavy bombing of the North. They are all ingredients of the impending peace no less astonishing today than when they happened. Then there was Peking and the mind-boggling view of Nixon raising his glass to Chou Enlai, a part of the Viet Nam equation, and the scene just a few months later of Nixon...
...speech hit McGovern hard without ever naming him. It did so by either overstating McGovern's already fairly far-out positions or tying him by implication to policies he has not actually advocated. Nixon urged Americans to "reject the policies of those who whine and whimper about our frustrations and call on us to turn inward." He suggested that McGovern was bent on making the U.S. "the second strongest nation in the world" through cuts in the defense budget. He claimed that McGovern welfare reforms would add 82 million people to the welfare rolls-a gross exaggeration...
...with a bang, but a whimper. --T.S. Eliot...