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...Jackson or Fritz Mondale, much can be forgiven. These fine speeches reminded us that a skilled orator, adjusting intuitively to the crowd's response, employs a different and more demanding art than the numbing nattering of commentators. Television talk has been memorably defined by ABC's Sam Donaldson: "You get the mouth working and hope the mind will follow...
...Square to the Reagans' 75-yard stroll on top of the Great Wall, there was a surfeit of what White House Aide Michael McManus called "highprofile presidential visuals." The U.S. press following Reagan numbered 300; TV news made up half that pack. Cracked ABC's acidic Sam Donaldson: "It's all just one big photo opportunity...
Directed by Roger Donaldson; Screenplay by Robert Bolt...
There would have been room, even in two hours, to pursue a coherent examination of these characters in relationship to each other and to the events that transform their lives. This kind of thing, emotions under claustrophobic pressure, is precisely what Director Roger Donaldson, a New Zealander, did well in Smash Palace two years ago. Instead, time is misspent on the allegedly exotic sights, rites and sexuality of the South Seas natives. Toplessness aside, he visualizes them pretty much as directors did in Dorothy Lamour's day. Perhaps he was distracted by the shadows still fitfully visible in this...
Some companies, though, continue to produce reports elegant enough to grace the finest coffee tables. The Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm, whose profits jumped 32% last year, issued a 64-page document filled with pictures of historical artifacts and featuring a painting of Alexander Hamilton on the cover. But Wisconsin Securities, a Milwaukee investment firm, went one better. Along with its 30-page report, the company sent each of its 235 shareholders a 10-oz. can of ginger cookies made by one of the companies in which it has invested...