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Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland of the American Ballet Theater, soprano Anna Moffo, television personality Dick Cavett, singer Aretha Franklin and the Boston Ballet will star in the theater's opening on December...
...sense of her audience mar some of the pieces in Off Center. The McCall's article on the Moonies, for instance, opens with a paragraph as purple and swollen as a bad bruise. Sometimes Harrison's inspired chat turns to chaff--she goes completely gaga over Dick Cavett in a profile piece that is all flutter and giggles, just like the show. Occasionally we get the feeling that she is using words and criticisms for the sheer joy of being liberated, free to say what she wants...
Despite his best efforts, which included a book detailing the grisly conditions at Tucker and Cummins, and appearances on the Dick Cavett show, Murton could not prevail upon Arkansas state authorities to investigate the murders, despite the existence of an unlimited statute of limitations on murder. Only in 1970 was Murton vindicated when the Supreme Court ruled that confinement in Arkansas prisons was cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional...
...cannot forgive them for is not so much their alleged failure to criticize [Joseph] McCarthy but ... their criticism of the crimes of Stalin and his successors during the forty years in which she apologized for them." When Novelist Mary McCarthy made equally hostile remarks about Hellman on the Dick Cavett Show, a lawsuit followed. Hellman is unlikely to take Hook to court; his evidence is clear, weighty and damning. But even here, he insists on a scorched-earth policy. The fumbling, revisionist introduction to Hellman's Scoundrel Time, by Garry Wills, "has unconsciously reconstructed the Kremlin's propaganda...
...what he calls "two vertiginous occasions." His impression: "The other talk shows in which I have taken part were all saunas by comparison with Carson's. Merv Griffin is the most disarming of ego strokers; Mike Douglas runs him a close second in the ingratiation stakes; and Dick Cavett creates the illusion that he is your guest, enjoying a slightly subversive private chat. Carson, on the other hand, operates on a level of high, freewheeling, centrifugal banter that is well above the snow line. Which is not to say that he is hostile. Carson treats you with deference...