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Discussion Board Forum Forrest Gump...1. The film has many levels of "reading". In the surface it is a comedy, a lovestory, a clever reconstruction of American culture from the 60s to the90s. At this epidermal level, the countercultures - embodied in Jenny - represent everything that was "bad and evil", the origin of present day "decadence": sex, drugs, rock and roll, and political activism. She was abused by her father and thereon jumps into every kind of abusive relationship, to end up victim to AIDS. Her political involvement is presented as a steam valve for her neuroses and frustrations, as a form of birdbrany fadism for loosers. Protesting the war is played at the same level than disco dancing. By contrast, the All American hero (Gump) kyte-flyes above the drama... and the...
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Watergate scandal...ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN All the President's Men is one of the most riveting and well-received books of the 20th century, written in 1974, the bookwent on to win Pulitzer Prize for its original plot and gripping investigative journalism. The book was later made into a movie in 1976 and was equally successful because of some famous names and superb performances. Robert Redford along with Dustin Hoffman played the roles of Woodward and Bernstein, two Washington Post journalists, who brought President Richard Nixon down when he was found involved in Watergate scandal.
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The Watergate Scandal..., 1974.
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In the months preceding the Watergate break-in, Nixon and his administration had been extremely preoccupied with their public image, and took every possible step to avoid negative publicity. The preoccupation was reasonable: Nixon's policies regarding the Vietnam War generated much criticism, and the leaking of the documents concerning the US involvement in the Vietnam War submitted to the New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971 only fueled the criticism (Bernstein and Woodward 165).
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Historically speaking, the scandal started when the president’s supporters endeavored to break into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel in forage for some pieces of information cover-up of the Chappaquiddick event that has involved Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and a young woman’s death. Remarkable of this incident is that it engulfed the U.S President Richard M. Nixon and many of his followers... called...
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