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Other personality sculptors normally insist, with Guggenheim and Treleaven, that their role is supportive only, and that the candidate, not the playlet, is the thing. Occasionally there is a dissenting and disturbing voice of candor. Myron McDonald, formerly with Jack Tinker & Partners, the firm that created the widely applauded Alka-Seltzer commercials on television, has said: "We looked on the Governor [Rockefeller] almost as if he were a product like Alka-Seltzer." It had been a meeting of minds; Rockefeller's 1966 campaign manager...
High Risk. There have indeed been changes in Jess Unruh. He has a quiet, almost alarming candor that is not usually expected in a politician. His coarse yet sensitive face seems to communicate a new credibility. Because he has seen much of the seedy side of politics, and has been in on so many deals and schemes, he has the poignant aura of a sinner who has seen the light...
...Rhodes shares their apprehensions, but oh-deeing is not in his bones. His candor, his activism and his penchant for making quotable statements all qualify him as the commission's most controversial and audible member. He began filling that distinction right from the start by suggesting that deaths on the campus could be linked to White House criticism of students. For that Rhodes drew the wrath of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who called?vainly ?for Rhodes' resignation just three days after his appointment...
Russ Meyer describes with immediacy and candor the ethos of the majoritorian American. He is not an artist, he makes few aesthetic decisions, rather Meyer is a story teller with the same preconceptions and prejudices as his characters. Though his ambitions for film as a creative medium are minimal, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls crystalizes a moment in the history of American aspirations and manners...
...crime in a black city but also cope with Washington's frequent mass demonstrations, such as last weekend's Honor America Day (see THE NATION). A tall North Carolinian of 42, Wilson is a self-educated man with a slow drawl, a quick mind, limitless cool?and a brutal candor that is almost unique among the nation's defensive bluecoats. His men often feel so dejected, he admits, that "there's a tendency to say, 'Oh well, just another robbery,' and not respond as we should...