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...TIME'S Essay "Down with Media" is a cute example of the deviousness of rationalization in defense of confusing but doubtless profitable communications overkill! There is (are?) a liberal communications medium (media?) with the sticky, cohesive, emotion-affecting, mind-warping pervasiveness of a Los Angeles temperature inversion...
...exceeded the value of the attainable ends. Too much a proponent of the Defense and State Department plans that reached him, McGeorge Bundy failed to perform his role of giving the President a wide and honest range of choices. His brother Bill, like McNaughton, comes across as too cute and manipulation-minded for his own?and the nation's?good. The two men spun elaborate and dangerous scenarios that frequently underestimated North Vietnamese strengths...
...Vanderbilts were here this morning and so were the Sonny Whitneys and the Ogden Phippses and they were all agog at the cute little brown horse done in saddle cloth colors of gold and turquoise with rose tassels in his mane. And speaking of eating out, everyone was doing just that under the early morning purple sky on the green grass as Harry M. Stevens caterers provided a spread of truffles and figs and express made on an open air wood fire...
...early days, I would have been eager to see a young Harvard Robin (a fledgling reporter) come in to make the world a better place and revivify my faith in mankind. Come he did and winking at me, explain to a customer that although I was cute, I was inefficient and well . . . he was sorry about the lost copy. So much for my hero...
...court." Adds O'Horgan: "I want to tell people something about this guy who kept trying to tell the truth. Some of the words he got busted for, Barbra Streisand says in movies now, and people just react with 'Isn't that cute?' " To judge from the previews, Lenny is a sincere testament, whatever the verdict of the New York critics. Dirty-mouth, the film, on the other hand, looks like a ripoff. Made on a budget that could not have been much higher than a ticket to the movie itself, it features Bernie Travis...