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Letters to the editor, phone calls to station managers, and man-in-the-street interviews convey the same message. Even papers like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Phoenix Gazette, which have remained relatively uncritical of the President, receive letters of outrage when they run straight news stories about Watergate developments. "We did not elect the press," Reader Betty Noble told the Philadelphia Bulletin. "We feel more strangled by the press than by our politicians." Says Bill Eames, news director of KNXT-TV in Los Angeles: "Basically, what we hear back from viewers is 'So enough already!' " Station executives...
Though not correct, it was precisely the impression Stratton was trying to convey in the photos. Having endured the most brutal kind of physical torture as well as 18 months in solitary, he acted doped, hoping the world would understand that his statement was coerced even if it misunderstood the method of coercion. The seemingly pitiable spectacle he made of himself was thus actually an extraordinarily effective act of resistance by a brave...
...Shelley is here an admirable Viola--sprightly, intelligent, and a model of sanity in a world of absurdity. Her diction is clean, and her handling of the "Fortune forbid" soliloquy is particularly distinguished. But there is more beauty in the "damask cheek" speech than she is yet able to convey. (Siobhan McKenna's portrayal remains the yardstick for this part, as for Shaw's Saint Joan and others.) The plausibility of confusion between Viola-Cesario and Sebastian is helped here through Donald Warfield's soft, rather womanly portrayal of the brother (a role once played by a 19-year...
...poachers being rooted out, for instance, or an elephant attacking a Land-Rover. These are infrequent, however, and when they do occur are likely as not to have an expository fillip. The feature-length movie is much taken up with wild-animal footage. It was probably intended to convey a notion of the primitive majesty Ross was leaving behind, but after a while it comes to seem like padding, like rather elaborate vacation footage. A true or deep sense of this land, of the people who in habit it, or indeed of the two men who help supervise and maintain...
...admits as much in his note on sources. His account is drawn from contemporary press coverage, "the aim being to convey something of the episode's immediacy by recounting it in its own contemporaneous terms." If we take Thomas at his word, and accept that he limited his sources through design and not simply out of laziness, we come face to face with the central problem of the book. If his goal was simply to recreate a drama and "to appreciate the impact it produced on that [original] audience," perhaps he was correct to restrict his reading. But an "objective...