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...never made a mistake. He might be wrong for 59 minutes but in the last minute of the show he'd figure out everything. Never wrong, never out-foxed. Not even by the upper-crust criminals wearing Pierre Cardin suits who would sneer at the deductive efforts of the clod named Kojak. Until it was too late. And at the end, Kojak would permit himself a grim "gotcha" as the inevitable police dragnet closed in, even reaching to the hallowed environs of Central Park West...
Most important of all, Hedda's self-hatred translates into a destructive hatred of others-her academic clod of a husband, George Tesman (Peter Eyre), for example, and her onetime lover, the writer Eilert Luvborg (Patrick Stewart). Her wrath stems from the fact that she has betrayed her own Dionysian will to freedom. She is an older Nora who failed to slam the door on parochialism, co vention and hypocrisy. Jackson reduces all that to the level of cocktail-party sarcasm and suburban jitters...
...policing the area at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., while waiting for something to happen, but much of this sort of foolishness has been eliminated. Gone are the endless orientation lectures that used to provide an opportunity for a recruit to catch up on sleep while some clod stood before a map and explained where Scandinavia was as he pointed to the Iberian peninsula. By and large, gone too are the arrogant sergeants and junior officers who ordered a trainee to do humiliating things just to show off their authority...
...Neither the rich nor the famous escape his wrath. He recently demanded that a millionaire yachtsman put away his crummy checkbook, pay cash or get out. Last week a stroller who was killing time before a matinee was loudly condemned as "your typical woman shopper." She retorted with "sexist clod"- but only when she was safely out of earshot...
...Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...