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Along the way, Elkin displays his unique gift for surreal parody. In a sultan's harem, the chief eunuch gives a sex lecture in the tone of a call-in therapist: "You could fault tonight, you could die. In any event, I trust a review can do no harm, and I enjoy our chalk talks." A crusading George speaks with Joycean extravagance: " 'We were friends,' he says again of the man he has just mutilated. . .'He was wily. I frisked his shift and groped his robes. I did his duds like a dowser. . .And it came...
...Part III" will hit the newsstands when a ruling is handed down on the defense argument that confusion over technicalities in the initial trial interfered with the delivery of justice. Just this past Sunday, the garrulous doctor got a jump on the action with an appearance on a WBCN call-in show, casually trading quips with listeners about life under the celebrity spot-light...
...talk shows (a CBS limo waited outside NBC's Today show to take him on to CBS). He seemed to do best with television interviewers who knew the least about the facts. His blitz even extended to an appearance on one of those l-to-5 a.m. radio call-in programs, the Larry King show. Perhaps his toughest questioning came after Monday Night Football, where he appeared on an extended ABC Nightline that was on until 1:25 a.m. He faced Sam Donaldson, who filled in for Ted Koppel. On Nightline, the camera watches over the interviewer...
Father Nadolny's losses got publicity - not surprisingly, for he oversees radio and television for the Hartford archdiocese and has his own radio call-in show - and the parable changed, to the story of bread cast upon the waters. He received 23,000 sympathetic letters fat with checks. Father Nadolny's deficit became a surplus of about $190,000, given to the diocesan radio and television fund...
Pastreich stresses, too, that she is unique only as a professional female firefighter, adding that many women are volunteer or call-in firefighters in rural areas...