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FRANKFURTER can be found just below Frankenstein in the dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games...
...claim automatic citizenship, like every other Jew under the "Law of the Return"? Or should Lansky be excluded under a clause in the law that bars Jews with criminal pasts who would endanger the public welfare? Specifically, should two minor convictions and pending charges of income tax evasion and contempt of court back home be considered a criminal past...
...Lear has staved off every major threat with a combination of logic, persuasion, threats to cancel a whole episode (or the whole series), and scathing contempt for the censors' "thinktank mentality," his term for the corporate and governmental attitude that underestimates "how wise-heart a great many Americans...
...tell me I'm old for my age," Jaimie wearily replies to a bit of elementary flattery. Peter tries for a fast recovery: "All right, as long as you don't tell me I'm young for mine." Jaimie looks at him with almost ducal contempt and replies, "That's obvious." With more of that kind of kinetic tension and a great deal less clinical dramaturgy, Rivals might have made a good movie...
...Kepesh the former lit professor who must have the last word. He is full of contempt for the "morons and madmen," anyone who would laugh, gape or exploit him. Nevertheless he feels the urge to lead this uneducated herd to drink from the reservoir of great art. In concluding what is surely the most stylish lecture of his career, he quotes "Archaic Torso of Apollo," by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke...