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...extraordinary drama pitted an experienced team of White House attorneys against two aggressive 30-year-olds from the special prosecutor's staff. Most of the tough questions were posed by Richard Ben-Veniste, a brash, curly haired lawyer with an imposing recall of past Watergate-related testimony. Last week, when the President's feisty personal secretary Rose Mary Woods (see box following page) was called, the questions were asked by Jill Vollner, an attractive miniskirted attorney whose queries were delivered with a gentle touch...
Chicago political figures tend to make brash and revealing statements which less entrenched politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...
...impressions, and therefore Christian sits uneasily as a symbol of New York, and the work is not equipped to cover the sweep of a great city. For such broad subjects, Fairy Tale is a narrow perspective, but like its hero and his hometown, it gains a hearing by being brash and bizarre...
...Brash and Loud. At any rate, the first Tomorrow was spent discussing group marriages with two "triads" of spouses, one with two males, one with two females. Subsequent programs included a round table of rock groupies explaining their avocation, and a confrontation between a young woman involved with a Jesus people cult and a former social worker who "deprograms" such kids at the request of their parents. Upcoming shows will visit a nudist colony and entertain a delegation of homosexuals. "The network knows everything we're going to do," says Tellez, "and they've given us carte blanche...
Snyder, a radio and TV reporter since 1956 and currently anchor man for the evening news on Los Angeles' local station KNBC, has a reputation for outspokenness. Says a network acquaintance: "Snyder will say anything. He's brash, loud and unpredictable." Snyder, 37, claims that he is simply "a reporter interested in getting at the facts." Nonetheless, on the first few shows, his questioning was occasionally so insistent that his guests hardly had a chance to answer. Snyder also frequently rambles on as if he were more fascinated with his own opinions than those of his guests...