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...five stations from the networks (four from NBC, one from ABC) to go local, boasts that now all but one rank No. 1 in audience in their respective cities. The networks offer newscasts from Moscow and an occasional big name; local radio offers bargain pork chops at a nearby butcher shop, a $50,000 check that may lie buried in the listener's own backyard, a chance to shake hands with the man who spins Elvis Presley records...
...Nichols-May dialogue is steeped in hilarious vocal nuance. Both have fine ears for inflections of speech, an unerring instinct for the telling mannerisms, whether of a Chicago sharpie, a Virginia gentleman, or a Brooklyn butcher. Their most extraordinary act is to ask an audience for two lines of dialogue, then proceed to improvise a scene on the spot, using one line as the start and the other line as the end. Furthermore, they will produce the dialogue in any literary style the audience suggests-Proust or Erskine Caldwell, Li'l Abner or Samuel Beckett. (A Faulknerian...
...destruction of the old port of Marseille, the deportation of the faculty of the University of Strasbourg, and the deportation from France of 120,000 Jews and 80,000 other Frenchmen, at least half of whom died in Nazi concentration camps or gas chambers. Frenchmen called Karl Oberg "the Butcher of Paris...
...close and down the stair, But and ben wi' Burke and Hare. Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef...
Journalist Nathan's most effective weapon was not a butcher's knife but a stylist's stiletto. With malice toward some, he dubbed Noel Coward's Design for Living "a pansy paraphrase of Candida"; dismissed T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party as "bosh, sprinkled with mystic cologne." Maxwell Anderson, jeered Nathan, "enjoys all the attributes of a profound thinker save profundity." Nor did Nathan spare his fellow critics: Said he: "Impersonal criticism is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. Show me a critic without prejudices...