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...sober newspaper of record ("the Minneapolis Times, "after a certain self-important daily in New York City)-the committees selected a middle course. The result: the Star's traditional no-frills hard-news approach was shucked in favor of more analytical coverage, occasionally frivolous feature stories, breezier writing and zestier graphics. The company did its part by increasing the editorial budget $1.4 million, to $5.5 million. Star reporters began turning up in such far-flung places as Italy and Niagara Falls, and writing long, thoughtful pieces on migrant workers, regional government and the labor movement in the airline industry...
...what my husband wanted and there was a part for me to play, so I dug in and played it. If you really put your heart into something and work hard at it, you generally end up liking it." On her own as First Lady, a frothier, breezier Pat Nixon began to emerge, one not above teasing her staff or kidding the press corps, using such slang words out of her college past as "kiddo" and "big deal." She especially enjoyed traveling. "I think this is the real me," she said after one trip to Oklahoma...
Giannini and Melato, who also starred in Love and Anarchy, are once again fine here, but their characterizations suffer from the deletion of nearly 20 minutes of running time, eliminated by the American distributors in an attempt to make proceedings a little breezier. The movie is somewhat puzzling in some of its transitions, more than a little abrupt in Mimi's abandoning his principles-and the reflection they find in his love for Fiore. However, no serious damage results from the condensation...
...pretty wispy stuff, ranging from a government clerk sneezing on a general at a most inopportune moment to a dental student ecstatically extracting a tooth to a virago making life pluperfect hell for a gout-prone bank manager. The second half of the show is distinctly brighter and breezier than the first. The entire cast is not only exemplary, but extraordinarily versatile, and Christopher Plummer, as usual, provides superior acting with facile, enviable ease...
...Matthew and Hannah Josephson, liberal writers of long standing, bring both knowledge, political empathy and personal affection to their biography of Smith. Onetime Hearst Journalist Richard O'Connor's book is breezier and briefer, less analytical about Smith and less reflective about his special place in U.S. politics...