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Even more impressive was the way Couric chose her words. Too tasteful to dwell on her sorrow and not content merely to acknowledge those who had expressed concern for her and her small children, she expressed concern for others who might be in the same hopeless boat that she and her husband had known. Nor did she offer any easy answers or palliatives, but straightforwardly gave her "sympathies," which in her case were literal; she did feel what those others felt. By doing so, Couric made something valuable of a private life exposed. She showed what Tripp, Flowers...
...years. His was the dominant spiritual presence in the final round of the great revolutionary challenge that began soon after the turn of the century and sought no less than to alter Western assumptions about human life. But that role is not really what the critics want to dwell upon. What's on their mind is the stands Pope John Paul has taken on--women. On their right to take holy orders, to abort a fetus, to frustrate insemination by artificial means. And they want to talk about the overexercise of papal authority, about the discipline he has exercised over...
...suspense in the Schirra episode is a worry over the winds on the day of lift-off. Surely, if three men are going to sit on a skyscraper-size tube of rocket fuel and then be sent into space for 11 days, there must be more exciting matters to dwell on. In general, the mini-series fails to give the viewer a good sense of the purposes and risks of the missions. That's not surprising, since scientific information is so hard to convey in a drama. The result, though, is that we don't appreciate the challenges NASA faced...
...disappointing result this early in the season is not something on which this promising team is going to dwell...
...dwell a long time on that book becauseit's inaccurate," Liem said in the earlierinterview...