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Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...
Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...
Robert Hockney, hotshot editor of the Berkeley Barb during the student uprisings of the late'60s, prize-winning Vietnam reporter and the first journalist to rip the veil off the CIA, and (naturally) handsome stud, wends his way from New York to Paris to Humburg to London and then back to Washington in search of the elusive "truth." As the authors tiresomely tell us, he faces a most disquieting question: Were all his earlier journalistic tours de force fed to him indirectly by the Russkies? Was his CIA expose planted by Soviet spies? Was his much-heralded interview with...
...grand, silly movie original 42nd Street that Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley whipped up for Warner Bros. in 1933 was shorter, sharper and funnier than this elaboration, which includes several more numbers and, if possible, even less plot. The Warren-Dubin songs like Go into Your Dance, Shuffle off to Buffalo and About a Quarter to Nine are jazzy bits of innocent syncopation. There is now a good deal of narrative and emotional weight on these tunes, which are graceful little paper boats never made for such heavy cargo. The book, which the program accurately calls "lead-ins and crossovers...
DIED. George R. Stewart, 85, prolific novelist and scholar of literature, American history, forestry and meteorology who received acclaim for his "weather novels" Storm and Fire; in San Francisco. A professor of English for 38 years at the University of California at Berkeley, Stewart battled the regents over the "nonCommunist loyalty oath" required of faculty in 1950, and later documented the experience in The Year of the Oath. Also recognized as an authority on onomastics, the science of names, he noted in American Place-Names that Deathball Rock, Ore., commemorated "an unsuccessful attempt to make biscuits...