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...promoting stars along with promoting news, to the point where it is not clear which is which." The only solution, Brinkley argued, was to "report the news the way newspapers report it," with many reporters spending the day developing stories, "then having them, all of them, report on the ah" whatever they have learned. And to give up having a star or two stars trying to keep up with everything." Only then, once TV news was "free of the artifice of show business," said Brinkley, would it have achieved stability, would it have grown up at last...
...cinemascopic background. Superman, after a hard day's work going faster than a speeding bullet and leaping tall buildings at a single bound, spots a cat caught in a tree and swoops down to the rescue. How does he swoop? How, in fact, does he fly? Ah, that is the reason for the cloaks and the daggers: the producers are terrified a photographer will follow the reporter and show Superman being held up by a 100-ft. crane and wires. Says a spokesman, "We don't want anyone to destroy the illusion of flight...
...Keep going, he decided. Turn on to Pennsylvania Avenue. Lovely morning. Remembering back to the Inauguration Day of Jan. 20, 1969. As an aide to L.B.J., he had ridden up the avenue in the limousine with Johnson and Nixon in back, he and Ev Dirksen on the jump seats. Ah, how life changes. Pump some more. Middle lane is crowded at rush hour. Too slow for a biker. Buses fuming. Too much pollution. But then Jones began to listen to the sounds of people going to work. Quite a drama, he decided...
Mcllvanney captures the speech of his Glaswegians with similarly high fidelity. At first glance, the dialect seems designed to try the reader's patience: "If there's no somethin' wrang wi' her the noo, there'll be somethin' wrang wi' her when Ah get ma haunds oan 'er." Gradually, though, the "hoot, mon" appearance of words on the page disappears, replaced by the odd, lilting music of street, sitting room...
...Ah, yes, the boho crowd. In Cambridge, it hangs out at the Algiers Cafe under the Brattle St. Theater, at Piroschka's on Dunster St., and at Pamplona on Bow St. All three places have tables outdoors and pretentious conversation...