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Events overwhelm the play, breaking its continuity and interfering with its principle missions, the intimate portrayal of a complex and intriguing political personality. Adopting the overused one-man show approach, playwright Dore Schary pays too much attention to minor historical incidents during the Roosevelt administration. He fails to provide the character with the breathing space so essential for success in what has become a tired and formulaic format. As Roosevelt discusses his presidential years, he shifts abruptly from event to event, changing subjects and moving through time too quickly. As a result, the play fails to fully achieve the dramatic...
...what 60 million viewers will want to see: he knows, or usually knows, because he is one of them. His likes are theirs, and his dislikes are theirs. He was born with perfect pitch for American pop TV taste. "He's the man with the golden gut," says Bonny Dore, a former ABC director of variety shows. "He knows instinctively what works and what doesn't." From Irwin Segelstein, Silverman's counterpart at NBC, comes similar and perhaps, given the source, more telling praise. Says he: "Freddie has some strange umbilical relation to the viewer...
...Fantastic plants, electric eels, armadillos, monkeys, parrots; and many, many, real, half-savage Indians . . ." From the careful watercolors of John White, Raleigh's artist on Roanoke Island in the 1580s, to the gloomy wildernesses of Gustave Dore 250 years later, the exhibition shows us the European eye adjusting itself to the freakish wonders of the New World. The dragon detaches it self from mythology and becomes an "igwano" or iguana; "a strange monster" turns out to be an opossum...
Nixon's lung clot was evidently a small one-only "dime-size," speculated Dr. John Lungren, the ex-President's internist. Lungren and Radiologist Earl K. Dore discovered the clot through two recently refined tests using radioactive isotopes. First they injected human albumen tagged with radioactive iodine-131 or technetium into an arm vein. The radiant particles circulated through the small blood vessels of Nixon's lungs, and a scintillation scanner took an electronic "picture" of their distribution. Nixon's scan showed a blank area on the outer side of the right lung: the clot...
...American painting from colonial times to the present. The book is useful in that it handsomely gathers a vast amount of information as well as some 330 well-chosen illustrations. But of the six essays that make up the text, only those by Dartmouth Art Professor John Wilmerding and Dore Ashton are really good. The others range from the merely competent to the opaque. Another complaint: several abstract paintings are reproduced standing on their left sides-without indicating this curious fact to the reader...