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...eats only at French restaurants, someone suggested. She escapes from classes by limousine and spends weekends on Corsica, said another. She was murdered on the first day of Freshman Week by a jealous ex-lover. Some yuckster at the Freshman Register slipped in an old photo of Christie Brinkley for laughs. No one ever answered the telephone at 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London...
Over at ABC, on the David Brinkley show, the European economic conference had ended with a bland communiqué papering over disagreements. But ABC's guest, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, bubbled: "I would say that we've had a very good session. I think we accomplished everything that we wanted." When challenged about the communiqué's evasions, Regan was not to be drawn. Like most businessmen who go into government service, Regan tends to concede nothing and doggedly repeats his sales pitch. Not very rewarding...
When it comes to Sunday hand-to-hand combat, Secretary of State Al Haig does better. He was Brinkley's guest the following week. Haig has learned to evade by being, if Noah Webster will allow the word, circumloquacious. "I'm sometimes very good," he acknowledged, at ducking questions. Four times in 15 minutes he answered, "It's too early to say"-a damp response in show-biz terms, but then it often is too early to say. "Aren't you really pleased," asked George F. Will, the gung-ho conservative, at the defeat...
...turn the other cheek. When, a few days later, he was told Bill Moyers' remark that it "was not easy to sup with power and get up without spots," Graham replied: "Bill would certainly know about that ... He's supped with power quite a lot." On the Brinkley show, however, Graham was, like most guests, a consenting victim...
Since Graham had been out of the country for a while, Brinkley crisply summed up the American reaction to Graham's trip: "That you have been royally entertained, taken around Moscow in a limousine, fed caviar three times a day, and have been 'taken in.' What is your response to that?" Graham: "David, I was not taken in." The evidence seems to be that he was, but what is of interest is the way Graham was questioned-the technique of the unbuttressed accusation disguised as a question. In television interviewing, this dubious tactic is now acceptable shorthand...