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...reliance on diction and neglect of theatricality that makes Danton a bore. No one's timing is good. The guillotining scene is no more than a babble of voices; Herault-Sechelles' last line is almost lost. Danton's is. The skillful performances of Chapman and Miss Esterman must be enjoyed without relation to the rest of the play...
...inwardly tense and outwardly relaxed, he was the boy wonder who stepped into his job five years ago and played the complex, competitive, split-timing game of network programming with such relentless drive and consummate skill that by last year eight of the top ten Nielsen-rated night shows bore CBS's eyeprint, as did all ten of the top daytime entries...
...friend remarked to me this morning that he assumed the CRIMSON's report of Professor Marcuse's talk at Kirkland House bore little resemblance to what he actually said. As it happens, it bore none at all: and I write so that this may be noted by your readers and the event not enter our minds, as Karl Kraus warned events in the modern age almost inevitable do, as journalistic distortion. Martin Peretz Teaching Fellow in Government
...President himself, who is still trying to get over his recent illness; and not the reporters, most of whom felt Mr. Johnson was imprecise and evasive." New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Douglas Kiker put it bluntly: "It is apparent that press conferences have become both a chore and a bore to the President...
Smack at 165 m.p.h. On the 127th lap, the two cars snarled full bore around the west turn, with Panch "drafting" Lorenzen, tucked into his slipstream only inches behind. "I had just about 6 ft. between me and the wall," Lorenzen said later. "All of a sudden, we ran into hard rain; Panch started around me on the outside, and we really connected. My right front fender smacked the wall. Then my right rear smacked the wall and straightened me out. Good thing too. I was doing about 165 m.p.h...