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...structure, and here it is the presence of John Reed as observer of and participant in history. But unlike Ragtime, Rosenstone's book need not be played slowly. Romantic Revolutionary is best read quickly, selectively, so as to glean the golden Russian wheat of Reed's life from the chaff of Rosenstone's analysis...
Moreover, Arledge and Cosell refuse to recycle the intramural chaff that passes for conversation on talk shows and taped variety series. "We hope to attract guests who are not normally seen on television," explains Arledge. Adds Cosell: "Are you happy with the pretaped Hollywood shows which have a floating crap game of guests with McLean Stevenson this week, Tim Conway the next week, moving between Carol Burnett and Cher?" Instead Arledge and Cosell scheduled "acts"-performers doing a full turn. ABC has money to book the best: each show is budgeted at around $250,000 and, as Howard says...
...more the daughter of her father Prince Rainier III of Monaco than of Grace Kelly of Philadelphia and Hollywood; the immigrant Kellys' struggle for social acceptance is beyond her ken. She can chaff the prostitutes that line Avenue Foch outside her parents' Paris apartment and even joke when one is dropped off by a customer: "I wonder how those girls keep their hairdos in such good shape." But she will not be bourgeois. Grace would like her to take a cooking course at Maxim's. Says Caroline: "We have slaves for that." Replies Grace gently: "Yes, darling...
...unpredictable ECAC hockey race comes to a close, the conference's selection committee began to sort out the wheat from the chaff yesterday by naming six teams to the playoffs and eliminating three from contention for the final two spots...
...have had to dig into the barrel," Barnaby said, "but we didn't come up with chaff, we came with wheat." Mead, who has been having problems with injuries this season, moved into the number seven spot, while Morgan played at number nine...