Word: yes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, while you were inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon your liver about sixty guys dressed in Crimson were going through a ritual known as "playing football." People ask football players "do you play football," and football players answer, "yes, I play football," but unless you've "played football" you really don't understand what an incredibly complex ritual "playing football...
...happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which DuPont would have snorted "Balderdash!" or something equally puerile. But Shapiro was fascinated by what was moving up from his gastro-intestinal tract; slowly yes, but inexorably moving, and he felt the way pharoah's charioteers must have felt when they saw the Red Sea falling in on them, and nowhere to run. Up, up, up it came--and there it was, he figured he might as well make it good, and threw...
...there, where worth is evaluated by the size of the car, the number (in my day) of cashmere sweaters the girls owned, if Dad let you drive the Cadillac to high school. Where three years ago every kid in town seemed to own a Schwinn bicycle-built-for-two. Yes, lovely Hinsdale will pay for energy rather than conserve it. Status, you know. And the rest of us will pay for the Hinsdales of the country...
...Nixon's Viet Nam policy and include his views on the invasion of Cambodia and on domestic dissent. At one point, according to sources who have seen the tapings, Frost pauses, searching for a word to sum up the Nixon attitude. Nixon interrupts and suggests "paranoia?" Frost replies, "Yes." The two men talk about the former President's feelings about the antiwar movement, and several minutes later, Nixon says, "Call it paranoia, but paranoia for peace isn't that...
...people--a bit more neurotic than most, perhaps, but still too familiar to be dismissed with a chuckle. Too many of the scenes in Annie Hall strike home--like the one where Allen, peeved at being late, refuses to enter a movie theater two minutes into the screening. Compulsive, yes--but in the case of a movie as good as Annie Hall, that sort of stubborn insistence on seeing the whole thing makes a great deal of sense...