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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cousin, Cousine is a charming and amusing French farce which, as the title indicates, revolves around an adulterous romance en famille. It may well be that if this movie were in English it wouldn't seem funny but merely silly, as may roommate claims. Nevertheless, there are some great bits about French family life, as when the hero's alienated teen-age daughter shows her snaps of last year's wedding (featuring subjects like "Uncle Pierre flashing a moon at dinner" and "Aunt Jeanne throwing up in the garden") and when the small children are given riot squad outfits...
...adds that many well-intentioned friends have advised him to wash his hands of Richard Nixon--that renouncing Nixon is required for readmission to "polite society." It is advice that Price says he always graciously refuses with explanations like, "Thanks, but I just don't feel that way--it wouldn't be honest...
...humanitarian" calculations that entered into the President's decision to embark on the coverup. In retrospect, he says, it becomes easy to think that immediately after the events of June 17, 1972, Nixon should have said "O.K., let's get the truth out, everybody walk the plank." "There wouldn't have been much damage," Price says, "even if John Mitchell were involved. On the other hand, in human terms, I doubt if he could have done that." Price adds that he feels certain that Nixon would have won re-election, even if he had immediately made everyone walk the plank...
CLARE, 16, having run away from home, met a pimp along Minneapolis' Hennepin Avenue and moved in with him. He persuaded her to hit the streets. "He wouldn't let me come into the house unless I brought him $150 a day," she recalled. After she was arrested for prostitution, she and her pimp flew to New York, where she worked for 16 months. She collected at least $100,000, of which she saved only $800. She was arrested 42 times for prostitution and once for grand larceny ("It was a trick who wanted his money back...
...letters, MacCracken revealed to Lindy that after his fourth jump in 1927, "I was thinking of grounding you so you wouldn't be taking so many chances." He did not do so only because Bill Robertson, one of the owners of the mail service for which Lindbergh was flying, "came into my office in the Department of Commerce while I had on my desk the report [on that last bailout]. Bill persuaded me not to do it because he said they were still trying to get the last $2,000 or $3,000 to build the plane...