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Even for the increasingly sensational network magazine shows, the ghoulish display last week was something of a milestone. In addition to the Manson hour -- the first weekly episode of ABC's new Turning Point series -- serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his father were brought together for a session on Dateline NBC. CBS's 48 Hours spent another hour exploring the case of Russell Obremski, convicted of two Oregon murders in 1969 and recently freed on parole. And NBC's Now served up its own creepy sociopath: a man in prison for kidnapping untold numbers of children from their...
Even for a career politician, Flynn's latest display of self-promotion has been sickening. Flynn worked tirelessly for the Clinton campaign and expected to enjoy the spoils of victory. When he was appointed to the minor post of ambassador, Flynn made a public display or wrangling with the administration over his duties. He argued that he should become an ambassador-at-large, able to visit hit spots and bring comfort...
Least Troubling Display of Ethnic Rivalry: This headline in a Norwegian daily: NORWAY LEADS ((IN MEDALS)); SWEDES TIED WITH FIJI...
Most Curious Display of Commercialism: The Swiss Alpine ski team's uniforms, which were patterned with holes to look like Swiss cheese...
...audiences, the payoff varies. When a performer's piece is largely autobiographical, like Shear's or Redgrave's (which ran eight months on Broadway and is touring the country), the theatergoer can get the illusion of making an instant friendship. When the show is a bravura display of physical and vocal transformation from one character to another, like Glaser's deft Family Secrets or Spring's intensely acted if mawkishly overwritten The Mayor of Boys Town, the pleasure is seeing the conjurer's trick. When the writing is ambitiously literary, as in Taylor's eloquent if not galvanically performed pseudo...