Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SATURDAY NIGHT WITH CONNIE CHUNG (CBS, Sept. 23, 10 p.m. EDT). CBS's long- struggling magazine show, West 57th, has re-emerged with a new name and a new star as host and chief correspondent. One added element certain to cause a stir: dramatized re-creations of news events...
Gumption or no, skeptics perceive an Oedipal element behind the enterprise. After joining the small-paper business launched by his father, the younger Ingersoll clashed with him early and often, tried to break free, then forced him out of the partnership in a financial settlement that the elder Ingersoll considered unfair. Thereafter, father and son spoke infrequently. Ingersoll blames the tension largely on his stepmother; at his father's funeral in 1985, the widow and the namesake son held separate receptions...
...course, there is the irony of including such misstatements as "Too much checking on the facts has ruined many a good news story" (attributed to Roy Howard). Chief Justice Warren Burger may have made a mistake in attributing the statement to Howard, but there's no mistaking the element of truth in the notion--an element that Boller and George seem to overlook. They've checked out their quotes in a scholarly way, but somehow they lose the pizazz of the lines as they go along...
...issue of Frank's conduct is not homosexuality but prostitution, which is illegal and which has always been a destructive element in heterosexual and homosexual life," the newspaper said...
There was another element of hypocrisy in the Republican complaints. As Lucas' proponents are well aware, there is no such thing as an apolitical political appointment. The Bush Administration, which hopes to attract more black voters to the G.O.P., certainly had that goal in mind when it selected a black for the civil rights post. It has not ruled out giving Lucas a "recess appointment" to the job while Congress is out of session, which would allow him to serve until the end of 1990 without being confirmed. But if the Administration goes that route, it is sure to anger...