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...good journalist approaches an interview subject as he would a safe, spinning from cajolery to intimidation to sympathy, hoping to hit upon the right combination. In May 1977, David Frost unlocked Richard Nixon as no inquisitor ever had, eliciting candid admissions, remorse, even a glint of tears. Dismissed beforehand as a frothy talk-show host, Frost won journalistic plaudits for his painstaking preparation and expert technique. In short, he was an obvious network choice to interview Henry Kissinger on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of his memoirs...
Shaplen emphasizes the United States' failures in any number of Asian revolutions, offering candid assessments of people and policies that contributed to our mistakes. His chapters on the Indochinese nations, particularly Vietnam and Cambodia, are especially effective. He reminisces colorfully on Saigon under siege and the atrocities of Pol Pot's regime but does not limit himself to narrative. In the section entitled, "Why the Americans Failed," he writes...
...Lives of a Cell, here Thomas writes what he feels like writing, disallowing any overall structure for the book. But taken one at a time, Medusa reveals Thomas as a gifted humorist, moralist, psychiatrist and critic. Thomas has no poses, no axes to grind, and so he remains humane, candid and optimistic...
...from the performance. It may even have helped it. Performers agree that it generates what Levine calls "a constructive nervousness," forcing them to concentrate harder. Milnes estimates that in a televised performance "the metabolism goes up 10% to 15%. You can't help thinking you're on Candid Camera. " Sometimes it can be a little too candid. Last week, before Cruz-Romo's big arias, viewers could clearly see her rolling her tongue to gather saliva in her mouth ("My God," she said later, "I didn't know I did that"). But, as Domingo points...
...amount of economic aid can mask the racial basis of the scheme, which strips millions of blacks of their South African nationality as their tribal homelands become independent. The logical result of the plan, in the candid analysis of the former Cabinet Minister in charge of black affairs, Cornelius Mulder, is that "there will not be one black man with South African citizenship...